On Wednesday 22 August 2001 11:31, Troy Denkinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 August 2001 11:58, webmaster wrote:
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > $REPORT_file="report.htm";
> > $ imput_file=$ARGV[0]||'imput.dat';
> > unless (-e $imput_file)
> > {
> >     die "$0: error:missing file: $imput_file";
> > }
> > open (IN, $imput_file) or die "$0 : error: $imput_file: $!";
>
> All of this ( except the #! line ) can be replaced by this:
>
>       open( IN, shift ) or die( "Open failed: $!" );

Attention issues today.  This single line of code should have been:

        my $input_file  = shift || "input.dat"; 
        open( IN, $input_file ) or die( "Open failed: $!" );

I missed the default file name bit.

Regards,

Troy


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