This may sound like a pretty dumb question buts its something
that I have been wondering about. Is it possible to point
a glob at a scalar or array.

Like if I wanted todo maybe:

$string = "this is a test";
# ... code to point *FD at $string ...
while(<FD>) {
 print $_,"\n";
}
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So basicly reading $string like a filehandle.

P.S. my reason behind this is, Iam sick of
some modules forcing you to pass a filehandle to a method in
order for it to read the data its processing, so I want to trick
it, Example: MIME::Decoder

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