1)how to open a file like >+ or +<?.
From perldoc -f open:
You can put a '+' in front of the '>' or '<' to indicate that you want both read and write access to the file; thus '+<' is almost always preferred for read/write updates--the '+>' mode would clobber the file first. You can't usually use either
Curiously enough I wrote an explicit example yesterday in a thread with almost exactly the same subject as this one...
In reply to Re^4: File handling
by blazar
in thread File handling
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