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I'm new and sorry about this - but what should I be putting inside this
"Diamond Operator"? The FileHandle? the open file ?
Thank you.

"maryellen sniffen" <> wrote in message
news:kMcBd.18825$EL5.1055@trndny09...
> I'm new and sorry about this - but what should I be putting inside
this
> "Diamond Operator"? The FileHandle? the open file ?

An apology is a poor substitute for actually reading the documentation
yourself, rather than asking thousands of people to read it to you.

perldoc perlop
(Search for "I/O Operators")

See also:
perldoc -f open
perldoc -f readline

Paul Lalli

maryellen sniffen <> wrote:
> I'm new and sorry about this - but what should I be putting inside this
> "Diamond Operator"?


Nothing, else it will no longer be the Diamond Operator!

The diamond operator is a special case of the Input Operator,
described in:

perldoc perlop


> The FileHandle?


If you put a filehandle in the operator then it is not
the diamond operator special case, it is merely the general
case input operator.


> the open file ?


Eh?

I cannot imagine what "open file" might mean here...


--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas

maryellen sniffen <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> I'm new and sorry about this - but what should I be putting inside this
> "Diamond Operator"? The FileHandle? the open file ?

What would "the open file" be in a Perl program? For all intents and
purposes, the file handle *is* the open file.

Anno