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Diffstat (limited to 'ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm b/ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm index 1c030ecd34..d479dae08c 100644 --- a/ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm +++ b/ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ parameters, the first parameter is a filename that may include whitespace or other special characters, and the second parameter is the open mode, optionally followed by a file permission value. -If C<FileHandle::open> receives a Perl mode string (">", "+<", etc.) +If C<FileHandle::open> receives a Perl mode string ("E<gt>", "+E<lt>", etc.) or a POSIX fopen() mode string ("w", "r+", etc.), it uses the basic Perl C<open> operator. @@ -122,23 +122,23 @@ Furthermore, for doing normal I/O you might need these: =over -=item $fh->print +=item $fh-E<gt>print See L<perlfunc/print>. -=item $fh->printf +=item $fh-E<gt>printf See L<perlfunc/printf>. -=item $fh->getline +=item $fh-E<gt>getline -This works like <$fh> described in L<perlop/"I/O Operators"> +This works like E<lt>$fhE<gt> described in L<perlop/"I/O Operators"> except that it's more readable and can be safely called in an array context but still returns just one line. -=item $fh->getlines +=item $fh-E<gt>getlines -This works like <$fh> when called in an array context to +This works like E<lt>$fhE<gt> when called in an array context to read all the remaining lines in a file, except that it's more readable. It will also croak() if accidentally called in a scalar context. |