I have never seen the following before: if(!open(MY_HANDLE, "file.txt")){ Try to keep to what you might find in a text book.

TIMTOWTDI - if(!open(MY_HANDLE, "file.txt")){ die "Cannot open the file\n"; } is pretty much exactly* the same as open MY_HANDLE, "file.txt" or die "Cannot open the file\n";, but the former might be much more familiar to someone coming from a language such as C.

Personally I'd just have pointed out that generally the three-argument open and lexical filehandles have several advantages over the two-argument open and bareword filehandles, and that it's usually nicer to include the filename and $! in the error message.

* Update: One difference is that if introduces a new scope, which would become relevant when using lexical filehandles. But as currently written, they're the same.

In reply to Re^2: Find a sequence in a multifasta files and motifs by haukex
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