http://qs321.pair.com?node_id=376754

Sprad has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

According to the Camel, filehandles will automatically close if they're re-open()ed. And I'd bet they also close when the program terminates. But do they ever close at any other time?

For instance, say I have this sub:

sub writefile { open (FILE, ">>myfile.txt"); print FILE "hello\n"; }
Will myfile.txt still be in use outside of writefile()?

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