I'm having a hard time successfully writing to filehandles stores in variables. here's how it goes: 
# 
# open report files for printing
my $filepath = "/usr/openv/scripts";

open *NTOUT,    ">>$filepath/nt.html" or die "cannot open nt file for 
+writing: $!\n";
open *UNIXOUT,  ">>$filepath/unix.html" or die "cannot open unix file 
+for writing: $!\n";
open *MAILOUT,  ">>$filepath/mail.html" or die "cannot open mail file 
+for writing: $!\n";

#
# some unrelated code ......
#
foreach my $class ( sort keys %classHash ) {

        if  ( $classHash{$class} = "NT" )   { $outhandle = *NTOUT; }
        if  ( $classHash{$class} = "UNIX" ) { $outhandle = *UNIXOUT; }
        if  ( $classHash{$class} = "MAIL" ) { $outhandle = *MAILOUT; }

    foreach my $status ( sort keys %{ $classHash{$class} } ) {

        if ( $status eq "success" ) {

            print $outhandle <<SUC;
        <table border=1 width="100%">
        <tr>
          <td colspan="12" align="left" valign="center" bgcolor="#33cc
+33">
           <b><font size="+1">$class:  Successful Jobs</b></font>
          </td>
        </tr>
SUC

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...the print statement print $outhandle (as well as subsequent others) don't actually print to the filehandle. The problem is not with %classHash; I've checked that it is being populated as I expect. But, if I do this: 
@fh = ( *NTOUT,*UNIXOUT, *MAILOUT );
foreach (@fh) {
print $_ <<EOC;
<html>
  <head>
    <title>[Backup report] $humanstart - $humanstop</title>
  </head>

  <body bgcolor="#ffffff">

  <h2 align="left">Daily Backup Report</h2>
  <h3 align="left">From $humanstart to $humanstop</h3>
EOC

}

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It does print to each filehandle. What am I doing wrong, here?

In reply to typglobs and filehandles by Anonymous Monk

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