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in thread Opening a file, editing, copying to another

Just to be extremely explict, "print STDOUT;" is the same as "print STDOUT $_;". Both of these statements print the value of the special Perl variable, $_, to STDOUT. Similarly, "print OTHER;", which is the same as "print OTHER $_;", prints the value of $_ to the "OTHER" file.
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Re^4: Opening a file, editing, copying to another
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 20, 2007 at 23:44 UTC

    Actually

    print;

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    suffices. STDOUT is assumed if no file handle is provided. However I used print STDOUT; in the sample code to maintain consistency with the OP's sample code.

    The important thing for Grundle is to be aware of $_ and where it is used as the default.

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