Re: print htmlcode issue

[Zaxo]

You need to obtain a filehandle for wherever you wish to direct the print:

open FH, "> somefilename" or die $!;
print FH <<HTMLCODE;
ZXCZXC
zxcZXCzx
zxczxczxc
zxczxczxzx
HTMLCODE
close FH or die $!;

The handle may also be from pipe or socket.

Update: To get STDOUT assigned somewhere else, just use that as the filehandle:

open STDOUT, "> thefilepath" or die $!;

Then the default handle for print is the file.

Update: Juerd, yes, buffered writes will fail on close if the device is full or quota exceeded.

After Compline,
Zaxo

[Juerd]

close FH or die $!;

Does close ever fail?

To me, it seems testing the print makes more sense:

print FH $foo or die $!;

Which can come in handy, because filehandles are not protected by strict.

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[mce]

Yes,

they can be in 5.6.1.

use strict;
my $fh;
open ( $fh, "> /tmp/out") or die $!;
print $fh "hallo";
close($fh);
exit 0;

Or by using the IO modules.

Which has the advantage of autoclosing when leaving the block.
---------------------------
Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
IT Masters, Belgium

[Juerd]

my $fh;

That is a lexical, not a file handle. It can contain a reference to a glob, and can _act_ like a filehandle, but it really is not. It is a real scalar, and open doesn't change that, it only assigns a reference to it.

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