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From: frankel@corona.megatek.uucp (Allan Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: perl question about > in file name
Keywords: perl
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Date: 6 Jun 89 00:59:40 GMT
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perl is quite happy to work with a file named "<a":

	open(A,"><a");
	print A "Heigh, Their!\n";
	close(A);

	open(B,"<<a");
	$line = <B>;
	print $line;

To write to ">a" it would presumably be necessary to delete (or truncate)
it first and then open ">>>a".



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