"Roman Daszczyszak" schreef:
> After reading Randal's March 2000 LM column and learning that you can
> assign a filehandle to a scalar by doing something like:
>
> open(FILE, $filename) or die "whatever";
> $value = *FILE{IO};
>
> I am wondering if there are other, perhaps better, ways of doing this?
>
> FYI, I googled for "assigning filehandle to variable perl" and a
> couple other searches, but only came up with pages directing how to
> read from a filehandle into a scalar.
Use lexical ones in the first place.
open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "open $filename, stopped" ;
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