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I'm curious to know how you found the select select trick.
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Re^4: Bad news for IO::Handle magic (SWYM or sink)
by Stevie-O (Friar) on Jul 07, 2004 at 23:20 UTC
    Stolen^WBorrowed straight outta Symbol's geniosym:
    sub geniosym () { my $sym = gensym(); # force the IO slot to be filled select(select $sym); *$sym{IO}; }
    --Stevie-O
    $"=$,,$_=q>|\p4<6 8p<M/_|<('=> .q>.<4-KI<l|2$<6%s!<qn#F<>;$, .=pack'N*',"@{[unpack'C*',$_] }"for split/</;$_=$,,y[A-Z a-z] {}cd;print lc