* How can I output my numbers with commas added?
+ mentioned Number::Format
* How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
+ talk about the 3 argument open()
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=head2 How can I output my numbers with commas added?
+(contributed by brian d foy and Benjamin Goldberg)
+
+You can use L<Number::Format> to separate places in a number.
+It handles locale information for those of you who want to insert
+full stops instead (or anything else that they want to use,
+really).
+
This subroutine will add commas to your number:
sub commify {
@@ -482,25 +489,20 @@
=head2 How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
-Normally perl ignores trailing blanks in filenames, and interprets
-certain leading characters (or a trailing "|") to mean something
-special.
+(contributed by Brian McCauley)
-The three argument form of open() lets you specify the mode
-separately from the filename. The open() function treats
-special mode characters and whitespace in the filename as
-literals
+The special two argument form of Perl's open() function ignores
+trailing blanks in filenames and infers the mode from certain leading
+characters (or a trailing "|"). In older versions of Perl this was the
+only version of open() and so it is prevalent in old code and books.
+Unless you have a particular reason to use the two argument form you
+should use the three argument form of open() which does not treat any
+charcters in the filename as special.
+
open FILE, "<", " file "; # filename is " file "
open FILE, ">", ">file"; # filename is ">file"
-It may be a lot clearer to use sysopen(), though:
-
- use Fcntl;
- $badpath = "<<<something really wicked ";
- sysopen (FH, $badpath, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC)
- or die "can't open $badpath: $!";
-
=head2 How can I reliably rename a file?
If your operating system supports a proper mv(1) utility or its
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