Hi,
I run:
C:\_32>type try.pl
open(my $x,">&STDOUT");
C:\_32>perl try.pl
C:\_32>perl -le "open(my $x,\">&STDOUT\");"
>& was unexpected at this time.
C:\_32>
Why does the one-liner throw that error ?
Having escaped both double quotes I expected the one liner to behave in exactly the same way as the script - ie to simply silently exit.
I know that replacing the double quotes with singles works around the issue:
C:\_32>perl -le "open(my $x,'>&STDOUT');"
C:\_32>
But is there a way to retain the use of double quotes and still get the one-liner to DWIM ?
Cheers, Rob
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