Local scope for file handles?
Scott K. Laws
scott at elvis.mu.org
Wed May 10 22:15:08 CDT 2000
The Filehandle module is probbly better than the way i suggested
Scott
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jay Buffington wrote:
> You could use Typeglobs, but that's icky, (unless you're pre 5.0 - then
> you'll have to)
>
> The best way to do it is through the FileHandle module. i.e.:
>
> #Use FileHandle;
> #
> #sub printfile($) {
> # my $filename = shift;
> # my $filehandle = FileHandle->new();
> # open $filehandle, $filename or die "Can't open $filename";
> #
> # while (<$filehandle>) { print; }
> #}
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Jay
>
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