perlopentut

perlopentut

• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
• Opening Text Files
  • Opening Text Files for Reading
  • Opening Text Files for Writing
• Opening Binary Files
• Opening Pipes
• Low-level File Opens via sysopen
• SEE ALSO
• AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT

NAME

perlopentut - simple recipes for opening files and pipes in Perl

DESCRIPTION

Whenever you do I/O on a file in Perl, you do so through what in Perl is called a filehandle. A filehandle is an internal name for an external file. It is the job o