From c0bd1adcfa702f7d9a93bc9b7c4b3e9adf29fe4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Peters Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:54:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation on getting a FORMAT ref from a GLOB was missing from perlref.pod. Thanks for David Wheeler for starting the discussion and Paul Johnson for confirming that it could actually be done. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25820 --- pod/perlref.pod | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/pod/perlref.pod b/pod/perlref.pod index 96cd941..21f15d4 100644 --- a/pod/perlref.pod +++ b/pod/perlref.pod @@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ known as foo). $coderef = *handler{CODE}; $ioref = *STDIN{IO}; $globref = *foo{GLOB}; + $formatref = *foo{FORMAT}; All of these are self-explanatory except for C<*foo{IO}>. It returns the IO handle, used for file handles (L), sockets -- 2.7.4