I'm using File::Temp::tempfile to get a name to use for a temporary file to temporary output from a piped command. The book Programming Perl, 4th ed. mentions that it is prefereable to use the file handle that the tempfile() function creates instead of the file name. Is there any way to do that in the context of the code snippet below?

    my ($handle, $output) = tempfile("tidyXXXXXX",
                          DIR => "/run/validator",
                          SUFFIX => ".dat" );

    my $tidy = q(/usr/bin/tidy);
    my @args = ('-quiet', '-xml', '-file', $output);

    # process web page with tidy
    open(TIDY, "-|", $tidy, @args, $tempfile)
        or die("Could not open '$tidy' : $!\n");
    close(TIDY);

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What about other improvements to the above?

In reply to File::Temp::tempfile : name versus handle by mldvx4

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