Hi all, I'm to use indirect filehandles, per Damian Conway's PBP, like so:

    my $FH = "DATA";
    open $FH, "<", $filename     or croak "Cannot open file $filename 
+- $!\n";

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Of course, I have 
use strict;
enabled, and would like to leave it that way. But because of that, I'm getting the following error when I run the code:

Can't use string ("DATA") as a symbol ref while "strict refs" in use a
+t parse.pl line 105.

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As you'd expect, line 105 is the open statement in the code above.

I'm using perl 5.8.7, so I know I don't need to have 

use Symbol qw( gensym );
(according to PBP, pg. 204, it's only needed for versions less than 5.6). I'd also like to stay with the standard builtin modules, so it rules out using IO::File. Any thoughts?

-- Burvil

In reply to Indirect Filehandles + use strict = error by bowei_99

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