OK, so I've got an extremely basic question that I can't seem to find an answer to: How do I release my standard output once I've done a "select FILEHANDLE" and, once done with it, a "close FILEHANDLE"?

For instance, part of my script opens a text file for output, and then does a "select OUTPUT".

However, after I'm done writing to that file, I want to print some things back to my display, and no longer to the OUTPUT file.

But, even after I do "close OUTPUT", any "print" statement after that causes an error to display about not being able to write to the closed filehandle OUTPUT.

My environment is Win32 with the latest ActiveState release if that changes anything.

I'm sure it's something simple, I'm still a bit of a Perl newbie :)

Thanks,
Glenn

In reply to extremely basic select() question by mabman

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