Re: What is happening with this filehandle?

[Tom Phoenix]

On Jan 7, 2008 2:07 PM, garhone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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?

It's a pipe-open:

    http://perldoc.perl.org/perlopentut.html#Pipe-Opens

Hope this helps!

--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training

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