On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:02:09PM +0100, John Doe wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 8. März 2005 02.04 schrieb David Storrs:
> > > >Suneel Kumar B <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >: Can i
> > > >: have an option by which i could open a file for both read and
> > > >: write simultaneously
> > The literal answer to your question would be this:
> >
> > open FILE, '/path/to/the/file', '+<'
> > or die "Couldn't open: $!";
>
> open FILE, '+<', '/path/to/the/file' or die "Couldn't open: $!";
>
> (see order of arguments)
>
> perldoc -f open
Sorry, yes. I had originally used the 'IO::File' version there, for
which that is the correct order. When I changed it to the bare open
call, I forgot to swap them. This difference in the order is
something that has tripped me a lot.
> > or, preferably (as it will manage some safety issues for you):
> >
> > use IO::File;
> > my $file = new IO::File('/path/to/the/file', '+<')
> > or die "Couldn't open: $!";
--Dks
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