open()'s 3 argument form

holli has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In various nodes i saw some fellow monks saying that the three-argument-form of open is safer than it´s two-argument form. Rereading perlfunc I cannot find anything that backs this.

Anyone can shed some light on this?

holli, /regexed monk/

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Re: open()'s 3 argument form by TedYoung (Deacon) on Feb 18, 2005 at 21:29 UTC
It keeps you from having to worry if your filename begins or ends with one of the special redirection markers. For example: `$filename = "afunnynameendingwitha\|"; open F, $filename; # Bad, will try to fork a proc. open F, '<', $filename; # Good, opens the funny file.` [download] Other note: Check out perlopentut. Ted Young `($$<<$$=>$$<=>$$<=$$>>$$) always returns 1. :-)`	[reply] [d/l] [select]