Local scope for file handles?

Scott K. Laws scott at elvis.mu.org
Wed May 10 22:13:42 CDT 2000


Try this:
use Symbol;                     # Anonymous global symbols
my($sym) = gensym;           
open($sym, "filename");

Regards,
Scott

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jorgensen, Erik ( IATS ) wrote:

> Hey folks!
> 
> Is there to locally scope file handles?
> 
> I use:
> 
> 	my $this = 'that';
> 
> all the time, so I tried:
> 
> 	my FILEHANDEL;
> 
> But it just generates an error.
> 
> Help! :)
> 
> Erik
> 
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