I'm not sure if I understand. If you have to open your files with different layers depending on an environment variable, then something like this should do the trick:

open my $in, "<:$ENV{LAYER}", $infile or die $!;
open my $out, ">:$ENV{LAYER}", $outfile or die $!;
# ...

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Of course if you depend like that one an environment variable then you should take care of doing some validation: the above is meant as a minimal example...

PS: it's clear that English is not your mother tongue, it's not mine either: so I suggest you take a deep breath and try to find a good wording to express your questions, because I bet I'm not the only one having difficulties to understand what you mean.

In reply to Re^3: design the open function by blazar
in thread design the open function by singam

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