2009/8/12 Telemachus <telemac...@arpinum.org>:
> On Wed Aug 12 2009 @ 11:27, Philip Potter wrote:
>> If $fh goes out of scope, will the file be automatically closed?
>
> Yup. From perldoc perlopentut:
>
> Another convenient behavior is that an indirect filehandle
> automatically closes when it goes out of scope or when you undefine it:
>
> sub firstline {
> open( my $in, shift ) && return scalar <$in>;
> # no close() required
> }
>
> See the whole section "Indirect Filehandles" for more.
Ah thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Philip
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