Except that you solve it the wrong way. Don't do that. Or use the "no strict refs" pragma only if there is an excellent reason to do it, i.e. probably never until you reach the level of Perl super-guru doing pure black magics.

Here, all you need to do is to declare your variable with the 'my' function:

open my $adress, ">", "$adress.mailbox";

I would just add that you should not open a file without testing if it worked. So this would most probably be better:

open my $adress, ">", "$adress.mailbox" or die "could not open mailbox $!\n";

In reply to Re^3: Troubles with descriptors by Laurent_R
in thread Troubles with descriptors by Artimus

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