in reply to Localizing Filehandles

...unless you're using Perl 5.6, in which case: 
open my $fh, "<foo.txt";

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and similar now work (apparently, I've never tried it). And of course, there's always IO::Handle & friends.

Andrew.

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RE: RE: Localizing Filehandles
by Adam (Vicar) on Jul 14, 2000 at 21:11 UTC
    Yes. Additionally you can use the FileHandle module:
    use FileHandle;
sub Whatever 
{
    my $filehandle = new FileHandle;
    open $filehandle, $file or die "Failed to open $file, $!";
    # do stuff.
    close $filehandle or die "Failed to close $file, $!";
}

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    But that wasn't my point.
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      I was going to add "which only goes to show that by posting here you find out several other ways to do the same thing", but it seems I forgot.

      Andrew.

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