Re: line number ($.) problem ?

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Ah, yes, thanks guys; I was thinking I needed the 'f' when specifying a filehandle. I will attempt to run it again with that fixed and report back.

Update: That was it. Thanks again.

-Scott

(And yes, you're exactly right ikegami, I was being confused by my memories of my c coding days.)

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Re^2: line number ($.) problem ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 27, 2007 at 17:21 UTC
When stdio in C, IO functions are preceeded by `f` (e.g. `fopen`, `fprintf`, `fputs` and `fgetc`) to avoid confusion and conflicts with system calls and non-file version. That's not the case in Perl. Perl labels the system calls instead (e.g. `sysopen` and `syswrite`) instead of the high-level call, since they the system calls are not used as often. To differentiate between file and non-file version, Perl uses polymorphism (e.g. `print ...` vs `print FILE ...`, `printf ...` vs `printf FILE ...`).	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: line number ($.) problem ?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 27, 2007 at 17:21 UTC

When stdio in C, IO functions are preceeded by f (e.g. fopen, fprintf, fputs and fgetc) to avoid confusion and conflicts with system calls and non-file version.

That's not the case in Perl. Perl labels the system calls instead (e.g. sysopen and syswrite) instead of the high-level call, since they the system calls are not used as often. To differentiate between file and non-file version, Perl uses polymorphism (e.g. print ... vs print FILE ..., printf ... vs printf FILE ...).

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