Isn't that what $self->get_filehandle from my snippet was supposed to handle?

How can it? get_file() is hard-coded to use a mode of 'w' (which doesn't make sense to me? does 'get' imply 'read'?), and it returns a filehandle.

Which you then pass to a method called get_filehandle()--but you already have one, so what is get_filehandle() going to do with it?

And why is it called 'get_filehandle()' if I have to give it a filehandle?

Archives can be existing or new, read from or written to, or both.

So, either you provide a full interface to open, or your making big assumptions (and imposing restrictions) upon what the user might need to do.

Quite frankly, I'm totally lost as to what your code snippet was meant to show, or how it relates to this thread? I'm probably missing something that is obvious to you, but please forgive my stupidity and explain it?

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In reply to Re^7: Should Modules Do I/O? by BrowserUk
in thread Should Modules Do I/O? by pboin

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