please help oh wise monks...

I have a subroutine that writes into the filehandle DATA. I open this for reading and writing like this: 

print "output file name: \n";
chomp($outfile=<STDIN>);

open (DATA, "+>$outfile" ) || die;

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I then call up a subroutine that prints data into DATA. I then want a second subroutine to act on DATA which I call up in subroutine 2 like this: 
sub countprog{



my $pos=0;
my $printblock=0;        


while(<DATA>)
{
#do a load of various things looking line-by-line at my data

print DATA2 "results of this 2nd subroutine";
}

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I don't think the second subroutine is getting the data properly.

Is there a better way to put data from one subroutine into another ? thanks,

basm100

In reply to data from one subroutine into a second by basm100

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