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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: simple script to write a file core dumps, why?
Message-ID: <1990Mar10.031524.25799@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 10 Mar 90 03:15:24 GMT
References: <257@cmic.UUCP> <7335@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.lang.perl
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <7335@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> by lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
+---------------
| :    printf(<wow>, "%s\n", $header[$i]);           #this goes to the screen, too
| 
| because the second thing you did wrong was to put a comma after the
| filehandle, which makes it not a filehandle.  What you wanted to say was
+---------------

Yuck!!!!!  (Quite aside from your proving my response to his posting wrong. ;-)
Why does the comma matter?

Just another Perl diver,						;-)
++Brandon
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