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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-06-18 20:27:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-06-18 20:27:58 +0000 |
| commit | 7d0fcbfa8710ca3423a8b2f79df1d1ffe66049d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f23396fbaddbcb0960c44b8a8bceec4697e0d6a /pod | |
| parent | edac6f11a785d11024ba7b4c7029a77714f59aa2 (diff) | |
| download | perl-7d0fcbfa8710ca3423a8b2f79df1d1ffe66049d8.tar.gz | |
Tiny tweaks.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17288
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index b4c5de0e45..cf8eb025c9 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -455,9 +455,9 @@ binary and text files. If FILEHANDLE is an expression, the value is taken as the name of the filehandle. Returns true on success, C<undef> on failure. -If DISCIPLINE is ommited the filehandle is made suitable for -passing binary data. This includes turning off CRLF translation -and marking it as bytes. +If DISCIPLINE is omitted the filehandle is made suitable for passing +binary data. This includes turning off possible CRLF translation and +marking it as bytes (as opposed to Unicode characters). On some systems (in general, DOS and Windows-based systems) binmode() is necessary when you're not working with a text file. For the sake @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ To mark FILEHANDLE as UTF-8, use C<:utf8>. The C<:bytes>, C<:crlf>, and C<:utf8>, and any other directives of the form C<:...>, are called I/O I<disciplines>. The normal implementation -of disciplines in perl5.8 and later is in terms of I<layers>. See +of disciplines in Perl 5.8 and later is in terms of I<layers>. See L<PerlIO>. (There is typically a one-to-one correspondence between layers and disiplines.) The C<open> pragma can be used to establish default I/O disciplines. See L<open>. |