in reply to Re: When do filehandles close?
in thread When do filehandles close?
Missed one little thing;-) as the OP already pointed out, reopen implicitly close a file handler.
However in this case $. (current line number for the last filehandle accessed) is not reset. I would prefer explicit close all the time simply because of this.
UpdateJust add a piece of code for demon (name this script a.pl):
use strict; use warnings; open(SCRIPT, "<", "a.pl"); <SCRIPT>; <SCRIPT>; print $., "\n"; #close(SCRIPT); open(SCRIPT, "<", "a.pl"); <SCRIPT>; print $., "\n";
Try to comment or uncomment that close. If it is commented, print out:
2 3
If it is not commented:
2 1
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