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| author | Jim Cromie <jcromie@cpan.org> | 2004-05-06 10:37:56 -0600 |
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| committer | Dave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com> | 2004-05-07 18:21:22 +0000 |
| commit | 2ce64696ee310efa4fd2ab1e0db39fb5c15500d3 (patch) | |
| tree | c6ad2aa4d99e6008b17785df72157b0f844d047a /pod | |
| parent | 8b0ac1d72e8a6530ddcafe41734c2fd10d6cbe5a (diff) | |
| download | perl-2ce64696ee310efa4fd2ab1e0db39fb5c15500d3.tar.gz | |
Re: stdio still supported?
Message-Id: <409ABE44.8060307@divsol.com>
Update B::Concise tests to skip stuff requiring the
"open to a scalar" feature of Perlio is it isn't available.
Also note this caveat in perlfunc.pod
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22801
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index b2c67763f5..23b841844f 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2908,7 +2908,9 @@ works for symmetry, but you really should consider writing something to the temporary file first. You will need to seek() to do the reading. -File handles can be opened to "in memory" files held in Perl scalars via: +Since v5.8.0, perl has built using PerlIO by default. Unless you've +changed this (ie Configure -Uuseperlio), you can open file handles to +"in memory" files held in Perl scalars via: open($fh, '>', \$variable) || .. @@ -2971,6 +2973,8 @@ Examples: } } +See L<perliol/> for detailed info on PerlIO. + You may also, in the Bourne shell tradition, specify an EXPR beginning with C<< '>&' >>, in which case the rest of the string is interpreted as the name of a filehandle (or file descriptor, if numeric) to be |