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Re: help in opening file with pipe

by mickeyn (Priest)
on Feb 09, 2006 at 15:05 UTC ( [id://529103]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to help in opening file with pipe

You're missing 'cat' before the file name (or 'type' if you're running on Windows).

open(handle,"type d:/help.txt |");
The pipe as you wrote it doesn't get anything in its STDIN.

Enjoy,
Mickey

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