Hi,
I am trying to "clean up" some code using perlcritc and am running across the error that one should use the 3 argument version of open().

Generally this is pretty straight forward except in this case:

if (! open ($XML, "xsltproc $xslt $controlFile|")) {
....
}

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I know what is going on, xsltproc converts the file pointed to be $controlFile, this goes to stdout and the "|" at the end redirects, such that I end up with $XML being a file handle pointing to the converted file content.

Now the not so pretty version of this would be for me to call xlstproc and send the output to a temporary file and then use the temporary file in an open statement with 3 arguments. However, I am thinking there is a more compact way of doing this that appeases perlcritic and does not require me to write a temporary file to disk.


Help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert

In reply to clean up to PBP for open by rjschwei

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