Note the use of a lexical to hold the filehandle in the do block.

So noted.

But I don't see "require 5.006;" at the top of your code, because you just made it non-portable for 5.005 sites.

I hope you're aware of that. If not, you are now. And so is anyone else reading this thread.

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