Hi monks,

I have a new problem I cant resolve, I found a nice piece of code on the internet and if I use it in its own small script it works well. The script just adds a header to an already created file. Unfortunately when I use it as part of my larger script I have an issue as @ARGV is used and in my larger script, I actually pass in some arguments. Is there a way to rewrite it so that @ARGV is not used 

#/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

sub addheader{

my($infile,$header)=@_;
my $text = do { local( @ARGV, $/ ) = $infile ; <> } ;
open(FILE,">$infile");
print FILE $header;
print FILE $text;
close FILE;
}

my $migfile = "SUBSCRPT_DATA_20121029_11001.DAT";

my $header= "44,,,2\n";

&addheader($migfile,$header);

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The following line just hangs when I run the code in my larger script:

my $text = do { local( @ARGV, $/ ) = $infile ; <> } ;

As always, your help is much appreciated

Cheers,

Rizz

In reply to unwanted ARGV in subroutine by rizzler

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