On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 06:42 , siren jones wrote:
>
> I'm trying to figure out some cgi code which has the statment
>
> &readparse(*input);
>
> I know readparse is a subroutine, but what is "*input"? Is that a
> variable? Reference? Parameter? What?
it's a type glob uses as a 'variable' into the subroutine -
and if you peek at it - it will show you what it is doing
with the type glob....
cf:
perldoc perldata
specifically the section on
Typeglobs and Filehandles
since I expect what you will find is that it is a way
of passing the File Handle through....
ciao
drieux
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