On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Rajeev Prasad <rp.ne...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Shlomi/Uri, > what do you mean by 'It's a good idea not to use "select" on filehandles like > that because it willaffect the default filehandle permanently.'? <SHELL> shlomif@lap:~$ cat Test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use autodie; open my $o, '>', 'myfile.txt'; select($o); print "Hello World!\n"; close($o); shlomif@lap:~$ perl Test.pl shlomif@lap:~$ cat myfile.txt Hello World! shlomif@lap:~$ </SHELL> As you can see, print no longer printed to STDOUT but instead printed to $o. For more information, see http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/select.html . Regards, Shlomi Fish > > I am using perl 5.14 That's not too bad. Regards, Shlomi Fish > ty. > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ Reality to be conquered, must be obeyed. You’d better obey Chuck Norris or he’ll conquer you. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
