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Re: Converting a String to a FileHandle

by japhy (Canon)
on May 22, 2006 at 03:00 UTC ( [id://550857]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Converting a String to a FileHandle

Perl 5.8 can do this with open(): 
open my $fh, "<", \$string or die "can't read from \$string: $!";
while (<$fh>) {
  ...
}

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You're opening a reference to a scalar to read from.
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