Re: [TCLUG:8884] converting uppercase to lowercase

[Christopher Reid Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

Still trying to improve my useful-post:bogon ratio. The original question
got answered many ways, but one thing got left behind:

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Michael Hicks wrote:

> @files = <STDIN>;

> although I can't remember if that is exactly the right syntax for handling
> STDIN (do you have to open()/close() it?)

The <> mean 'slurp up the file referenced by the filehandle'. Perl
automatically open()s and close()s STDOUT, STDERR and STDIN.


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