I'm trying to get myself introduced to Perl using "Beginning Perl" by Simon Cozens (kudos & thanks, Simon). I'm using a recent install from ActiveState (again, thanks). Everything's been fine so far until, in chapter 6, I started futzing with the example inventory.plx. It works fine, but I changed the line

 open(SORT, "| perl sort3.plx") or *SORT = *STDOUT;

to try to open a non-existent file as in

 open(SORT, "| perl foo.plx") or *SORT = *STDOUT;

Instead of assigning the file handle to STDOUT it fails with:

Can't open perl script "foo.plx": No such file or directory

It seems related to the pipe.

Is this to be expected? If so why? What's the recommended workaround?

In reply to open to pipe fails with exit on Windows by bluebloodpole

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