The evil <> operator which tries to figure out if it's dealing with a filehandle or a glob operation ... you'll want to take a look at perlop for more details of how perl figures this out: 

       If what’s within the angle brackets is neither a filehandle nor
+ a sim&#8208;
       ple scalar variable containing a filehandle name, typeglob, or 
+typeglob
       reference, it is interpreted as a filename pattern to be globbe
+d, and
       either a list of filenames or the next filename in the list is
       returned, depending on context.  This distinction is determined
+ on syn&#8208;
       tactic grounds alone.  That means "<$x>" is always a readline()
+ from an
       indirect handle, but "<$hash{key}>" is always a glob().  That’s
+ because
       $x is a simple scalar variable, but $hash{key} is not--it’s a h
+ash ele&#8208;
       ment.  Even "<$x >" (note the extra space) is treated as "glob(
+"$x ")",
       not "readline($x)".

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You'll want to either do: 
my $fh = $test{FH};
print <$fh>;

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or you'll want to: 
use IO::Handle;
print $test{FH}->getlines();

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Hope that helps,

In reply to Re: Getting file handle glob name instead of contents by Tanktalus
in thread Getting file handle glob name instead of contents by stevendel

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