+1. Nifty.
This snuck in with PerlIO. (See perlio.c and PerlIO_tmpfile and PerlIO_open). It uses mkstemp if available (with the downside of being hardcoded to use /tmp) or uses tmpfile otherwise. (Which also uses /tmp on Linux, but is system dependent.) -R > > =head2 How do I make a temporary file name? > > -Use the File::Temp module, see L<File::Temp> for more information. > +If you don't need to know the name of the file, you can use C<open()> > +with C<undef> in place of the file name. The C<open()> function > +creates an anonymous temporary file. > + > + open my $tmp, '+>', undef or die $!; > + > +Otherwise, you can use the File::Temp module. > > use File::Temp qw/ tempfile tempdir /; > > -- > brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
