This seems to be a filehandle issue. I am using IO::File to access 5 static HTML files, in order to build a web page. I have used this technique before with one file, but something goes wrong when I reuse the variable holding the filehandle. Everything executes fine, but I get errors during cleanup.

Here is a code fragment:

use IO::File ();
local $/;

foreach (sort keys %altnames) { 
      my $fh = IO::File->new;
      my ($hr_title) = m/(.*)\.txt/;
      print("<hr> <h1 align=center> $hr_title </h1>\n");
      my $source = join '/', $dir, $_;
      $fh->open($source);
      while (<$fh>) { 
          print($_);
          }
      $fh->close;
      }
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I have found that I get the error even for one loop. I inserted "last;" just after the close to test.

If I comment the print($_) statement, I still get the error.

If I comment the "while (<$fh>)" loop entirely, the errors go away!!

Here is the error log:

Unbalanced string table refcount: (1) for "Oracle.txt" during global destruction.

Unbalanced string table refcount: (1) for "Administration.txt" during global destruction.

Unbalanced string table refcount: (1) for "Perl.txt" during global destruction.

Unbalanced string table refcount: (1) for "Java.txt" during global destruction.

Unbalanced string table refcount: (1) for "Web Development.txt" during global destruction.

Thanks for any help!

Edited 2003-03-19 by mirod: replaced pre tags by code tags