Okay, I have an array of hashes, each corresponding to a file. Each hash has a key for a string (filename), the filehandle, and some other comma delimited data.

Dumper prints each hash like: 
$VAR1 = {
          'fn' => 'test3.dat',
          'no' => [
                    '0',
                    '1',
                    '2',
                    '3'
                  ],
          'fh' => bless( \*Symbol::GEN2, 'IO::File' ),
          'oo' => [
                    '1',
                    '2',
                    '4',
                    '8'
                  ]
        };

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I do some stuff for a while, and then at the end I want to close these filehandles.

So, if my array is $files, then I try:
foreach (@files)
  {
    $_{fh}->close;
  }

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So, I run the script and perl says: 
Can't call method "close" on an undefined value at test.pl line 62.

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So, I replace the block with a print Dumper($_{fh}); which then claims that the value is 'undef'.
???
Where did it go?

In reply to Filehandle in hash value gets lost by mr. jaggers

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