Hi

I think kcott is on the right track, it's a documentation error.

In

If you omit the LIST, $_ is used; to use FILEHANDLE without a LIST, you must use a real filehandle like FH , not an indirect one like $fh

LIST is meant to describe the ARGUMENTS ( i.e. FORMAT, VALUES) to the function (or method i.e. FILEHANDLE->printf(ARGUMENTS) ), like you can see in the following example

  DB<100> $_=42
 => 42

  DB<101> printf
42
  DB<102> printf STDOUT
42

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(tested with 5.10 which didn't even document the use of $_)

So LIST should be replaced with "ARGUMENTS" in the quoted part.

IMHO the other occurrences of LIST should be replaced with "VALUES".

that is

 printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, VALUES
...

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Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re: $_ as default printf arg fails by LanX
in thread $_ as default printf arg fails by Neutron Jack

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