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| author | Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> | 1998-06-18 16:37:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-06-21 00:05:01 +0000 |
| commit | fbb426e4e4fa9111602f64c566d240fa509dea6f (patch) | |
| tree | 58426a7367db0aad690393c33ac23275ca83c67c /pod | |
| parent | d720c4410d3a0730e373566db978e2b5789690e0 (diff) | |
| download | perl-fbb426e4e4fa9111602f64c566d240fa509dea6f.tar.gz | |
docs creating files via open
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p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1168
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 25a97ffddb..31367ed07b 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2127,8 +2127,9 @@ to open.) If the filename begins with '<' or nothing, the file is opened for input. If the filename begins with '>', the file is truncated and opened for -output. If the filename begins with '>>', the file is opened for -appending. You can put a '+' in front of the '>' or '<' to indicate that +output, being created if necessary. If the filename begins with '>>', +the file is opened for appending, again being created if necessary. +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 read-write mode for updating |