On Oct 30, 11:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Johnson) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:42:02AM -0700, Paul Lalli wrote: > > It's known, but I don't know that it qualifies as a bug. When you > > use the two argument form of open, Perl is looking for both the > > filename and mode, concatenated together, possibly with spaces > > separating them. Since your file ends in a space, you can't use this > > shortcut. In reality, you should NEVER use this short cut. > > That's an awfully long time. > > The functionality is there for a reason, and sometimes it's appropriate > to use it. Admittedly, that's not very often, but it's more often than > never.
It's there to make modern Perl compatable with old Perls. The only justifiable reason I can think of to use it is to allow your user to specify a pipe instead of a file name when you ask for a file. And if that's something you want to do, I'd suggest you're programming a pretty massive security hole. Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
