Hey Friends,
I've been banging out a series of Perl scripts to support my LUG webpage. Tonight's quicke was a script that accesses a CGI-generated database of subscribed users, loads the email addresses supplies, and allows me to send a batch email out to everyone concerning meetings, etc. I think the way I did this was horribly inefficient, but I can't seem to dredge my thoughts right now for a better way. This is what I have: 
use Mail::Send;

...time passes, children are born...

dbmopen(%CONTACT, "/httpd/userDBASE/contact", 0775)
        or die "Couldn't open DBASE: $!";

for $member (keys %CONTACT) {
        $CONTACT{$member} =~ /^\b(\S+)\b\s/;

        $msg = new Mail::Send(
                Subject => $subject,
                To      => $1);

        open MSGBODY, "$file"
                or die "Couldn't open $file: $!";

        $fh = $msg->open;

        while(<MSGBODY>) {
                print $fh "$_";
        }
        $fh->close;

        close(MSGBODY);
}

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Can you see my problem? It lays in the fact that I have to open and close the filehandle containing the message to start at the beginning of the file for each mail send. Otherwise, only the first message has content, and all the others are blank! I can't seem to google for an action I can take to reset the 'file pointer' to the first character in the file. If I recall from years past, C++ has this capability.

Input is, as always, treasured.

~John

In reply to Repeated File Opens Inefficient? by lacertus

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