in reply to Binary conditionals

Now that moritz has answered your question, I have a question of my own.

I can't compile 

my IN, "<infile.dat";
my OUT, ">outfile.dat";

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Is this what your code looked like when you ran it, or did something get mangled on the way to being posted here?

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Re^2: Binary conditionals
by Illuminatus (Curate) on Sep 30, 2008 at 15:16 UTC
    Yes, the post was incomplete. Subsequent posts using 
    open my IN, "<infile.dat";

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    or similar were correct.
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      Not quite. This gives an error message: 
      No such class IN at ./714572.pl line 10, near "open my IN"
syntax error at ./714572.pl line 10, near "my IN,"
Execution of ./714572.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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      moritz's code has it right because he uses a lexical filehandle. He also uses the recommended 3-argument form of open and checks its status: 

      open my $in,  '<:raw', 'infile.dat' or die $!;

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        Look out for the open parameters.
        You should distinguish between IN in file handle context and my $IN as scalar.
        my IN probably won't work while my $IN would.

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