For my own code, I even prefer to use IO::File because that gives me all that neat OO stuff on the file handle. And the additional benefit to be able to test for the type of a scalar which happens to be passed to me, by checking for ref $fh eq 'IO::File'.

But that's much typing for oneliners...

Update: As merlyn correctly pointed out:

"Please don't do that. Your code is fragile. It will break when I pass an object that subclasses IO::File but acts in every way like an IO::File".
So I went through my latest and greatest module, which grossly offends against this statement, and quietly changed my test to read: 
...
croak("Invalid type for 'outfile', missing method print()'")
  unless $outfile->can('print');
...

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The immediate benefit is that I now can use IO::Scalar from my test script to get output in a variable instead of a file (or STDOUT). Cool!

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Cheers, Joe

In reply to Re: Re^2: (nrd) Putting file contents into a scalar by joe++
in thread Putting file contents into a scalar by ByteOrNybble

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