Hi, I'm new to perl, and even newer to object orientated stuff. I am trying to write a class which allows a file handle to be accessed from more than one object method. (Hope I'm getting the terminology right here!) Here's my attempt at a module, MyFile.pm and a perl script to call it, scrap.pl I've tried to strip the code down to the essentials, I would guess the problem arises from trying to hold a filehandle reference in a hash. Can anybody suggest where I am going wrong? Thanks in advance! 
## module file, MyFile.pm
package MyFile;

## Constructor ##
sub new {
  my $self = {};
  bless $self;
}

sub open_file {
  my $self = shift;
  open(FH, "textfile") || die "can't open file";
  $self->{FH} = \*FH;
}

sub read_file {
  my $self = shift;
  while (defined ($line = <$self->{FH}>)) {
    print "Line from file is: $line\n"
  }
}
1;

## script file, scrap.pl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use MyFile;
$my_object = MyFile->new();
$my_object->read_file();

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