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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 7311d8be2a..6a498bcfcd 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3484,7 +3484,7 @@ piped open when you want to exercise more control over just how the pipe command gets executed, such as when running setuid and you don't want to have to scan shell commands for metacharacters. -The following triples are more or less equivalent: +The following blocks are more or less equivalent: open(FOO, "|tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'"); open(FOO, '|-', "tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'"); @@ -3496,7 +3496,7 @@ The following triples are more or less equivalent: open(FOO, '-|') || exec 'cat', '-n', $file; open(FOO, '-|', "cat", '-n', $file); -The last example in each block shows the pipe as "list form", which is +The last two examples in each block shows the pipe as "list form", which is not yet supported on all platforms. A good rule of thumb is that if your platform has true C<fork()> (in other words, if your platform is Unix) you can use the list form. |