in reply to 'WRITE'ing a format to a scalar

use can use tie to make a filehandle point to a string instead of a file, if that's what you were wondering.

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Re: Re: 'WRITE'ing a format to a scalar
by legLess (Hermit) on Aug 03, 2001 at 20:40 UTC
    Thanks John. I've not yet been initiated into the mysteries of "tie." Looks this this is a good time to start.
    --
    man with no legs, inc.
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Re: Re: 'WRITE'ing a format to a scalar
by runrig (Abbot) on Aug 03, 2001 at 22:50 UTC
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      That's very interesting. I had supposed that the machinary behind write eventually called PRINT or WRITE methods, but it doesn't.

      It looks like tieing file handles is still incomplete.

      —John

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