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Documentation on getting a FORMAT ref from a GLOB was missing from
authorSteve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:54:01 +0000 (21:54 +0000)
committerSteve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:54:01 +0000 (21:54 +0000)
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

index 96cd941..21f15d4 100644 (file)
@@ -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<perlfunc/open>), sockets