in reply to What kind of code prints GLOB(hexaddress)

A reference to a glob prints that. ie: 
[~]$ perl -le '$var = \*FOO; print $var;'
GLOB(0x805f888)

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One of the more common uses of globrefs are passing file handles into and out of subs, although this is less common now with the IO:: modules.

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Re: Re: What kind of code prints GLOB(hexaddress)
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 06, 2003 at 20:06 UTC

    Thanks a lot! Your suggestion about filehandles was right on. I had converted one of the globs to a variable to get syntax highlighting on it and the new code had something like:
    while(<FOO>){print $BAR;}
    This doesn't default to filehandle semantics, so you get the GLOB thing.

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