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=item close FILEHANDLE
+=item close
+
Closes the file or pipe associated with the file handle, returning TRUE
only if stdio successfully flushes buffers and closes the system file
-descriptor.
+descriptor. Closes the currently selected filehandle if the argument
+is omitted.
You don't have to close FILEHANDLE if you are immediately going to do
another open() on it, because open() will close it for you. (See