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10.4. What You Should Know

1.What is a filehandle?
2.What does it mean to open a file for reading?
3.When opened for writing, if the file exists, what happens to it?
4.What is the purpose of the select() function?
5.What is binmode?
6.What does the die() function accomplish when working with files?
7.How do Windows and UNIX differ in how they terminate a line?
8.What is an exclusive lock?
9.What does the tell() function return?
10.What is the difference between the +< and +> symbols?
11.What does the stat() function do?
12.How do you reposition the file pointer in a file?
13.How does the -M switch work when testing a file?

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