perl -lwe "open my $fh, '>', 'test'; print 0 + $fh; print + $fh" 16950176 GLOB(0x102a3a0) # ..and no: 16950176 is not the sum of numerical values of characters perl -wle "$str = q!GLOB(0x102a3a0)!; for (split '',$str){ print qq($_ = ),ord($_);$res += ord($_);} print $res" G = 71 L = 76 O = 79 B = 66 ( = 40 0 = 48 x = 120 1 = 49 0 = 48 2 = 50 a = 97 3 = 51 a = 97 0 = 48 ) = 41 981