in reply to Open Function Question

From the very top of [perlfunc://open], you'll see the following The first is commonly referred to as the 2 argument open, whereas the 2nd is commonly known as the 3 argument open.

In your code snippet, the 1st call is an example of the 3 arg open and the 2nd is ...

The docs couldn't be much clearer.

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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