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$fh = new FileHandle [filename[, mode]]

Constructor. Creates a FileHandle, which is a reference to a newly created symbol. The optional parameters, filename and mode, are passed to open. The FileHandle object is returned if the open succeeds, otherwise it is destroyed.


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