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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 2f2bbe4988..6703c6d6f6 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -870,10 +870,11 @@ X<close> =item close -Closes the file or pipe associated with the file handle, returning -true only if IO buffers are successfully flushed and closes the system -file descriptor. Closes the currently selected filehandle if the -argument is omitted. +Closes the file or pipe associated with the file handle, flushes the IO +buffers, and closes the system file descriptor. Returns true if those +operations have succeeded and if no error was reported by any PerlIO +layer. Closes the currently selected filehandle if the argument is +omitted. You don't have to close FILEHANDLE if you are immediately going to do another C<open> on it, because C<open> will close it for you. (See |