Re: What is happening with this filehandle?

On Jan 7, 5:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Garhone) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at someone else's code. It goes like this: > > my $condfile="myfile.txt"; > open(COND, "|compile.pr > $condfile") or die "Can't fork: $!"; > > What is

What is happening with this filehandle?

Hi, I'm looking at someone else's code. It goes like this: my $condfile="myfile.txt"; open(COND, "|compile.pr > $condfile") or die "Can't fork: $!"; What is happening with this filehandle, particularly, what does the "|" (pipe) facilitate in this case? Thanks in advance, C -- To unsubscribe,