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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
April 22, 2011 19:36
Subject:
PATCH: perlop booboo
Message ID:
23812.1303526160@chthon
% diff -u blead/pod/perlop.pod /tmp
--- blead/pod/perlop.pod        2011-04-19 15:13:11.000000000 -0600
+++ /tmp/perlop.pod     2011-04-22 20:34:27.000000000 -0600
@@ -1786,11 +1786,11 @@
 The STDIN filehandle used by the command is inherited from Perl's STDIN.
 For example:
 
-    open BLAM, "blam" || die "Can't open: $!";
-    open STDIN, "<&BLAM";
-    print `sort`;
+    open(SPLAT, "stuff")     || die "can't open stuff: $!";
+    open(STDIN, "<&SPLAT")   || die "can't dupe SPLAT: $!";
+    print STDOUT `sort`;
 
-will print the sorted contents of the file "blam".
+will print the sorted contents of the file named F<"stuff">.
 
 Using single-quote as a delimiter protects the command from Perl's
 double-quote interpolation, passing it on to the shell instead:

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