On 05/08/00, ""Scott K Purcell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote:
> require Fcntl;
> open (INFILE, "sept2000.txt", O_RDONLY) or die ("Can't open sept2000.txt.
> $!");
> But I get an error. Also, the reason for doing that is I believe it would
> be safer? Anyway, when should one consider using the Fcntl module versus,
> just the usual open filehandle, and < or > or >> from it?
Fcntl constants are for sysopen(), not open(). Though there's no reason to
use
sysopen() unless you need to. Read 'perldoc perlopentut' in the 5.6
release.
HTH,
Douglas Wilson
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