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Alexander Hartmaier <alex.hartmaier@gmail.com> writes: > this week I had to look up how to create a file on open and came across > perlopentut just to shockingly find out that is uses the two param form of > open everywhere! > Before investing my time to change that I wanted to get your opinions on > the topic. Tom Christiansen has written a lot on this topic, you should be able to find it in the archives. Also, Camel IV has up-to-date information. Tom also suggested a boilerplate that not only deals with open / close, but also the encoding issues that come with Unicode data. See e.g., http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default -- JohanThread Previous | Thread Next