Ok, Monks, here is my situation.

I have a script which generates several hundred arrays (actually '.' delimited strings, but I figured turning them into arrays would make them easier to work with). I need to print each array to a separate file, depending upon the first entry in the array.

There are an indeterminate number of possible first entries, so I can't just use a big

if ( $first eq "somestr" ) { print FILE "$first\n"; }

elsif ( $first eq "someotherstr" ) { print SOMEOTHERFILE "$first\n"; }

type structure, although that captures the basic idea of what I want to do. It just won't work because I don't know have any pre-runtime values for what "somestr" and "someotherstr" could be.

Is there any way that I can pull out that first entry, and then use that variable to create a filehandle to print to?

Thanks in advance.

JAPH

In reply to Variable Filehandles by Anonymous Monk

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