Re: [FWP] Drunk driving

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 03:55:00PM -0500, Tushar Samant wrote:
> I saw code like this recently, and I hope the perp isn't reading this:
> 
>     $string = $x;
>     open(TMPOUT, ">$tmpout");
>     write TMPOUT;
>     open(TMPOUT, "$tmpout");
>     read(TMPOUT, $x, 1000);
> 
>     $string = $y;
>     open(TMPOUT, ">$tmpout");
>     write TMPOUT;
>     open(TMPOUT, "$tmpout");
>     read(TMPOUT, $y, 1000);
> 
> Took me a while to guess what was being attempted...

Writing a format to a variable?  How to do it better is
documented... somehwere... in the documentation... for that... umm,
thing.  (I don't use formats)

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Michael G Schwern                                           schwern@pobox.com
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