Going Deeper
In addition to the functions I've described in this lesson and on Day 15, all of which are described in the perlfunc man page, there are also quite a few modules in the standard module library for managing files and file handles.
Many of these modules are simply object-oriented wrappers for the standard file operations; others are especially useful for covering up or getting around cross-platform issues. Still others simply provide convenience functions for managing files and directories.
I've mentioned a number of these modules previously in this chapter—Getopt and Cwd in particular. Table 17.2 shows the more complete list; for details on any of these modules, see the perlmod man page.
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