On Tue, 01 Jan 2019 21:02:28 -0800, tonyc wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:28:39 -0800, tobyink wrote: > > How about this text? > > > > """ > > As a special case the three-argument form with the third argument > > being C<undef>: > > > > open(my $tmp, "+>", undef) or die ... > > > > opens a filehandle to an anonymous temporary file. An anonymous file > > can be opened in any mode, but opening it in read-write mode is > > likely > > to be the most useful. (If the file is open in read-write mode, you > > can write to it, then C<seek()> to the beginning of the file, and > > read > > back from it.) > > """ > > > 32458de9a4322bd2e66c525d33720a42df7e0b56 introduced something similar > to this: > > This now reads: > > As a special case the three-argument form with a read/write mode and > the third > argument being L<C<undef>|/undef EXPR>: > > open(my $tmp, "+>", undef) or die ... > > opens a filehandle to a newly created empty anonymous temporary file. > (This happens under any mode, which makes C<< +> >> the only useful > and > sensible mode to use.) You will need to > L<C<seek>|/seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE> to do the reading. Presumably that's enough, so closing. Tony --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121033