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 happening with this filehandle, particularly, what does the > "|" (pipe) facilitate in this case? > > Thanks in advance, > C
Apologies, but it was pointed out to me that an explanation can be found in the perldoc for open. I guess I should have reword my question: I'm having trouble understanding the passage in the perldoc: "If the filename begins with '|', the filename is interpreted as a command to which output is to be piped". In the case of the above code, what is happening? What is the "output" that is being "piped" to "|compile.pr..."? Thanks, C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
