From: Philip Potter <philip.g.pot...@gmail.com> > Dear all, > > I'm trying to learn to use the IO::File object as a means of passing a > filehandle from one function to another. In the perldoc documentation > for IO::File, it gives the example: > > undef $fh; # automatically closes the file > > but in the reference that follows, it gives no indication for why this > might be the case. Would this behaviour be caused by the destructor?
Yes > If $fh goes out of scope, will the file be automatically closed? Yes And you do not have to go all OO to make use of this. open my $FH, '<', $filename or die; creates such an object as well. Jenda ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
