I am trying to understand why I am receiving the following error:

Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference at /home/geof/httppost/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/LWP/Curl.pm line 236

I have to admit, I don't understand what the code is attempting. Maybe someone can enlighten me? Code with line numbers below:

233     my $content = "";
234     open( my $fileb, ">", \$content );
235     $self->{agent}->setopt( CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, $fileb );
236     $self->{retcode} = $self->{agent}->perform;

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How is it that the open() above will even work? Can anyone explain to me why I an getting the 'undefined' error? Thanks for any assistance.

In reply to undefined value as filehandle from Curl.pm by wanderedinn

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