in reply to 'virtual' filehandles...

Check out IO::Scalar -- this looks like it does what you want, i.e. makes a scalar behave like a file handle, so you can "print" to it. (There's also IO::ScalarArray.)

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Re: Re: 'virtual' filehandles...
by nothingmuch (Priest) on Apr 09, 2003 at 00:55 UTC
    In 5.8 you can also open a scalar: 
    open SCANDLE, \$scalar; # use a 3 argument open to specify mode

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