Hi,

This is Perl 5.004_04 for irix-n32

Does anyone know why $_[0] cannot be used as a filehandle?

In the example below myFunc doesn't work whereas myFonc does, do you know why?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open FH, "<$myFile" or die "Can't open $myFile: $!\n";

&myFunc(\*FH);

&myFonc(\*FH);

sub myFunc {
  while (<$_&#91;0&#93;>) {
    #do something
  }
}

sub myFonc {
  my $handle = shift;
  while(<$handle>) {
    # do someything
  }
}

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thanks a lot

--
jey

In reply to $_[0] as a filehandle by jey

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