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| author | Offer Kaye <offer.kaye@gmail.com> | 2005-03-17 09:47:36 -0500 |
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| committer | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> | 2005-03-29 07:01:11 +0000 |
| commit | 6b0ac556af9eedace4d32a9b51232914d1118023 (patch) | |
| tree | a2811d49ea035c77bacb6f7a3e5d7e8edf16b01d /pod/perlopentut.pod | |
| parent | a212c8b5d0b264f0c7351db7e22b3b1b1178ca8b (diff) | |
| download | perl-6b0ac556af9eedace4d32a9b51232914d1118023.tar.gz | |
Make the spelling of whitespace (vs white-space and white space)
more consistent
Message-ID: <5694250503171147668e73c7@mail.gmail.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@24090
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlopentut.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlopentut.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlopentut.pod b/pod/perlopentut.pod index 72d91b73a3..f023434ed3 100644 --- a/pod/perlopentut.pod +++ b/pod/perlopentut.pod @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ examples would effectively mean which is definitely not what you want. The other important thing to notice is that, just as in the shell, -any white space before or after the filename is ignored. This is good, +any whitespace before or after the filename is ignored. This is good, because you wouldn't want these to do different things: open INFO, "<datafile" @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ in from a different file, and forget to trim it before opening: This is not a bug, but a feature. Because C<open> mimics the shell in its style of using redirection arrows to specify how to open the file, it -also does so with respect to extra white space around the filename itself +also does so with respect to extra whitespace around the filename itself as well. For accessing files with naughty names, see L<"Dispelling the Dweomer">. @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ C<sysopen> takes 3 (or 4) arguments. The HANDLE argument is a filehandle just as with C<open>. The PATH is a literal path, one that doesn't pay attention to any greater-thans or -less-thans or pipes or minuses, nor ignore white space. If it's there, +less-thans or pipes or minuses, nor ignore whitespace. If it's there, it's part of the path. The FLAGS argument contains one or more values derived from the Fcntl module that have been or'd together using the bitwise "|" operator. The final argument, the MASK, is optional; if @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ added to the sysopen() flags because large files are the default.) Here's how to use C<sysopen> to emulate the simple C<open> calls we had before. We'll omit the C<|| die $!> checks for clarity, but make sure you always check the return values in real code. These aren't quite -the same, since C<open> will trim leading and trailing white space, +the same, since C<open> will trim leading and trailing whitespace, but you'll get the idea. To open a file for reading: |