From: "Chas. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:44 AM, rubinsta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > Any thoughts as to why > > some of the matches are getting missed? > snip > > Not off hand. I will extract your code and do some tests. Can you > send me your data or is it sensitive? > > snip > > Just out of beginner curiosity, why did you suggest I use the 3 > > argument filehandle instead of: > > open(EX, "exclude1.txt") or die $! > snip > > Because the three argument version of open is safer. It doesn't > matter in the code you wrote because you used a literal string, but if > you say > > open FH, $file or die "could not open $file: $!"; > > expecting FH to be a read filehandle and $file contains the filename > ">important", you will wind up with a write filehandle.
And that means you were lucky. If the $file contained something like "|rm -rf /" or "rm -rf / |" ... Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
