Re^2: __DATA___ File Handle

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You do not need to open it, but - according to the documentation - you should close it yourself:

"The filehandle is left open pointing to the contents after __DATA__. It is the program's responsibility to close DATA when it is done reading from it." (Special Literals, as linked by Anonymous Monk).

cheers, si_lence

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Re^3: __DATA___ File Handle by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 13, 2009 at 13:31 UTC
Which is to say that you can close the file handle to release the resources it uses, but Perl will do so automatically when the program exits if it's still open.	[reply]

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