- open
Always open files in the new way
Old way:
examples/advanced-perl/open_file_old.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $filename = "data.txt"; open(FH, ">$filename") or die; print FH "data"; close FH; open(FH, $filename) or die; my $line = <FH>; close FH;
Recommended way:
examples/advanced-perl/open_file_new.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $filename = "data.txt"; open(my $wfh, '>', $filename) or die; print $wfh "data"; close $wfh; open(my $rfh, '<', $filename) or die; my $line = <$rfh>; close $rfh;
Security problems. Being global, difficult to pass as parameter to functions.