I'm sure this is simple, but I just can't figure it out, I've looked at dereferencing and still don't get it. I have opened a file with open and stored the filehandle in a hash, now I want to print to the filehandle, but using the following code gives syntax error, presumably because the parser doesn't know the hash value is a filehandle. 
our %hash;
...
open_file();
...
write_to_file();
...
sub open_file {
  open $hash{fh}, '<', 'myfile';
}
sub write_to_file {
  print $hash{fh} 'some line of data\n";
}
however, if I change the write_to_file sub to be 
sub write_to_file {
  my $fh = $hash{fh};
  print  $fh 'some line of data\n";
}
that works, but I'd far rather do it the 'proper' way
-- David

In reply to using a filehandle stored in a hash by DavidFerrington

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