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Ben Morrow

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More options May 16, 7:46 am

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From: Ben Morrow <b...@morrow.me.uk>

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:46:48 +0100

Local: Fri, May 16 2008 7:46 am

Subject: Re: write 10 files

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Quoth "A. Sinan Unur" <1...@llenroc.ude.invalid>:

> "Ela" <e...@yantai.org> wrote in
> news:g0jl3m$cj$1@ijustice.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk:

> > open (OFP$k, ">$outfile");

> First off, you should check if open succeeded. Second, what makes you
> think you can use OFP$k where Perl expects a filehandle.

> This looks like a very poor attempt at using symbolic file handles (if
> such a thing even exsits, I don't know).

Yes, it does. A filehandle is just an unquoted string, so

open "OFP$k", ">$outfile";

'works', FSVO.

(I'm leaving this bit in just in case anyone gets the wrong idea from
this post... :) )

> When you find yourself wanting to index something using an integer, you
> should use an array.

Ben

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