On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:24, John W. Krahn <jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote: snip > Shouldn't that be either: > > sysopen ... > sysread ... > > Or: > > open ... > read ... > > ? snip
If this were C, then yes, but this is Perl and sysread takes a filehandle. Just remember not to mix sysread and readline (or the operator form <>). -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/