Good Day Monks!

Wondering if someone could help me address a little problem. I have a sample bit of code below that is not acting like I expect it to. Basicly I want to make a string into a filehandle to pass to another module. My problem is that the file handle can be written to, but stays undef and can not be read. I have tried this with both IO::Sting and IO::Scalar with the same results.

ActiveState Build 860
IO::String Ver. 2.01
IO::Stringy Ver. 2.104 

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::String;

my $ioData;
my $io = IO::String->new($ioData);

# Load the Sting filehandle $io
print $io "This is a test\n";
print $io "If you can see this it works!";

# At this point $ioData contains the text above
# as expected. However, $io is still undefined.

while ( <$io> ) {
    print $_;  
# This print is skipped since
# $io is undefined. I do not think it has anything to do
# with the way I am calling <$io>  since from the 
# debugger, $io is never defined.
}

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Thanks!

In reply to IO::String Defining FH for writing, but not reading. by Anonymous Monk

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