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Perl by Example, Fourth Edition
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Perl by Example, Fourth Edition

by Ellie Quigley
November 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1008 pages
20h 15m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 4. Getting a Handle on Printing

Getting a Handle on Printing

The Filehandle

By convention, whenever your program starts execution, the parent process (normally a shell program) opens three predefined streams called stdin, stdout, and stderr. All three of these streams are connected to your terminal by default.

stdin is the place where input comes from, the terminal keyboard; stdout is where output normally goes, the screen; and stderr is where errors from your program are printed, also the screen.

Perl inherits stdin, stdout, and stderr from the shell. Perl does not access these streams directly but gives them names called filehandles. Perl accesses the streams via the ...

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