Re: perl@16005

Message-ID: <3CC0F769.1010705@stason.org>
(with a minor formatting nit)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16024

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 49efec6..705c4a6 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -2810,7 +2810,13 @@ opens a filehandle to an anonymous temporary file.
 
 File handles can be opened to "in memory" files held in Perl scalars via:
 
-    open($fh,'>', \$variable) || ..
+    open($fh, '>', \$variable) || ..
+
+Though if you try to re-open C<STDOUT> or C<STDERR> as an "in memory"
+file, you have to close it first:
+
+    close STDOUT;
+    open STDOUT, '>', \$variable or die "Can't open STDOUT: $!";
 
 Examples: