[perl #121033] [PATCH] Document read/write-only undef open

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

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