Filehandles
A filehandle is a connection between your script and a “port.” There are four standard filehandles in Perl by default:
<STDIN> | Standard input |
<> | Standard input or files listed on command line |
STDOUT | Standard output |
STDERR | Standard error |
The <STDIN> and <> filehandles were covered in a previous chapter. The STDOUT filehandle is the port used to send messages to the screen. When you use the print statement, it sends the output to the STDOUT filehandle by default.
The STDERR filehandle will be discussed in the “The die and warn Functions” ...
