Is it possible to pass the same file handler as reference in two different subroutine ? 

use FileHandle;
sub f1 { my $handle=shift; ... }
sub f2 { my $handle=shift; ... }
my $fh=FileHandle->new();
...
f1($fh);
f2($fh);

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What is disadvantage of having many file handlers passed to many subroutines ?
Depends on your definition of the word many, on the operating system you are using, and whether or not the file handles point to open files. I recently stumbled over the problem, that on Windoze (if we want to call this an "operating system"), having a few hundreds of simultaneously open file handles caused the system to let me open a new one. This has, of course, nothing to do with passing them to *subroutines*.

-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Re: File Handler by rovf
in thread File Handler by snape

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