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in thread is filehandler used ?

if (defined fileno(OUT)) { print OUT "bla bla\n"; }

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Re^3: is filehandler used ?
by beachbum (Beadle) on Mar 01, 2006 at 14:59 UTC
    any idea of the diff between yours and mine? I've always used *HANDLE:
    use strict; use warnings; open(OUT, ">test.txt") or die "Can't open file to write, $!."; if(defined fileno *OUT){ print "File handle is valid."; }else{ print "Nope."; } close OUT;
      No diff. \*HANDLE also works.