Thank you ELISHEVA,

It's always good to learn something new, and doing I/O to a string is new to me. Since I use 'diff' a lot in *nix and also have my own editor for working with development files, I'm not sure how often I would use it.

As far as your 'black hole', you'll see the same with a regular file. I have prematurely closed a file handle and then later added a 'print' statement. No error, no warning and no data. Also if you save a file handle to disk and then retrieve, you need some 'Perl magic' to get it to be valid file handle again.

Thanks for the updated information...Ed

Regards...Ed

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

In reply to Re^3: Redirecting/Restoring of Memory Files by flexvault
in thread Redirecting/Restoring of Memory Files by ELISHEVA

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