"Michael C. Davis" wrote: > > Hi all, Hello,
> Here's a simple question I should probably already know the answer to but I > don't and the documentation thus far has not been useful. How can I tell > if a given filehandle is open? perldoc -f fileno fileno FILEHANDLE Returns the file descriptor for a filehandle, or undefined if the filehandle is not open. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>