in reply to file testing is hard

I know the feeling, yes, you are being lazy :) IIRC, the perl function sysopen can do this (create if it doesn't exist and open for read/write in one fell swoop or fail => sysopen FILEHANDLE, "filename", O_CREAT | O_RDWR or die "wah $!").

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Re: Re: file testing is hard
by jamgill (Acolyte) on Nov 30, 2003 at 22:09 UTC

    cool, thanks. I didn't know about sysopen and after reading about it in the camel book, it seems to be limited enough to reduce the possibilities dramatically, simplifying my code.

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