| Subject: | apparent bug: Data::Table::fromTSV() does not accept STDIN as being a file handle |
| Date: | Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:25:05 -0700 |
| To: | bug-Data-Table [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Rob Retter <rretter [...] san.rr.com> |
Using perl:
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And the Data-Table package version 1.54.
Invoking Data::Table::fromTSV as follows:
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It reports an error because it invokes the built-in ref function on the first parameter and fails because the result is empty. Even if an indirect filehandle is passed as follows:
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the result is still failure.
As far as I know, STDIN is a file handle and the fromTSV function is documented as accepting file handles.
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And the Data-Table package version 1.54.
Invoking Data::Table::fromTSV as follows:
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Data::Table::fromTSV (STDIN, 1, , , , );
It reports an error because it invokes the built-in ref function on the first parameter and fails because the result is empty. Even if an indirect filehandle is passed as follows:
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my ($indir_fh) = (*STDIN);
Data::Table::fromTSV ($indir_fh, 1, , , , );
the result is still failure.
As far as I know, STDIN is a file handle and the fromTSV function is documented as accepting file handles.