You can't store a glob into a variable and then use that variable. You can store a reference to a glob into a variable. If you replace 
my @incHandles = (*INCNT, *INCMAIL, *INCUNIX);

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with 
my @incHandles = (\*INCNT, \*INCMAIL, \*INCUNIX);

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it'll start to work. But the proper answer is to use IO::File objects, to keep you from even having to mention names for things that are never again referred as names: 
my @incHandles;
use IO::File;
push @incHandles, IO::File->new for 1..3;

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And if you're using a fairly recent version of Perl, you can even skip those last two steps. Simply using an undef var as if it was a filehandle autovivs as a filehandle! Cool!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to •Re: Problems writing to filehandles contained in variables by merlyn
in thread Problems writing to filehandles contained in variables by blink

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