Interesting... You made a little typo, that should be a semicolon on the end of the open() line. But look at this, it seems to solve pg's problem. And interestingly, IO::File has the same behaviour that pg is complaining about. Is this behaviour of $. a bug or a feature? 

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $file = "pg-write3";

{
    open my $fh, $file or die "open: $!";
    $line = <$fh>;
    $line = <$fh>;
    print "two reads:\t$.\n";
}
# $fh is closed here
print "closed file:\t$.\n";

{
    open my $fh, $file or die "open: $!";
    print "open again:\t$.\n";
    $line = <$fh>;
    print "one read:\t$.\n";
}
# $fh is closed here
print "closed again:\t$.\n";

__END__

Output:
two reads:      2
closed file:    2
open again:     0
one read:       1
closed again:   1

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In reply to Re^3: When do filehandles close? by beable
in thread When do filehandles close? by Sprad

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