Perl Programming/Keywords/-W

The -W keyword

-W is a file test that tests if the file is writable by effective uid/gid.

It takes one argument, either a FILENAME, a FILEHANDLE, or a DIRHANDLE to test the associated file to see, if something is true about it. If the argument is omitted, it tests $_. -W returns 1 for true and an empty string for false. If the file doesn't exist or can't be examined, it returns undef and sets $! (errno).

Syntax

  -W FILENAME
  -W FILEHANDLE
  -W EXPRESSION
  -W DIRHANDLE
  -W