Dear Perl Monks,
I am facing a strange problem. I wrote a program like 
print "opening file 1\n";
myfile();
print "opening file 2\n";
myfile();
print "opening file 3\n";
myfile();

sub myfile
{
  open FILE, "xml.log";
  my @lines = <FILE>;
  close(FILE);
}

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When I run my code, the output is
opening file 1
opening file 2

Then my program hangs! Why does it hang? I did close the file in my first call to the function? When I call the function the second time I should get a new file handle...shouldn't I?

Please help .... I am confused. I am using active state perl 5.6.1 on Windows 2000.

regards,
Abhishek.

In reply to opening a file in a subroutine by abhishes

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