Hi Monks,

In a script I'm working on I had to use the following code:

open STDOUT, ">$tempfile";

#do some stuff here

close STDOUT;

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I had to do so because the stuff I was doing in between the "open" and "close" statements used a module that spat out a lot of chatter to STDOUT, but I didn't want it to appear on the console when the script was run. The only problem is that after doing this, nothing would print to STDOUT from print statements further down the script! E.g., if I did the above and then followed with:

print "Gee, this is fun!\r\n";

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And then ran the script, nothing would appear on my console...I wouldn't see "Gee, this is fun!".

Anyone know how I can fix this (e.g. how I can "reopen" STDOUT to whatever it was before I messed with it)?

In reply to Opening and Closing STDOUT by Anonymous Monk

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