Re: *FOO{THING} syntax used on a lexical variable

After the open, $fh is a reference to an IO handle (the thing that goes in the IO slot of a glob). If you use an IO ref as if it were a glob ref, it automatically gets a new glob wrapped around it, because on a perl language level there isn't any other way to deal with it.

$ perl -wle'$x = *STDOUT{IO}; print for $x, map \*$x, 1..10'
IO::Handle=IO(0x10164ce0)
GLOB(0x10141190)
GLOB(0x101412f8)
GLOB(0x10167d4c)
GLOB(0x10167d70)
GLOB(0x10167d94)
GLOB(0x101410ac)
GLOB(0x10167e54)
GLOB(0x10167e78)
GLOB(0x10167e9c)
GLOB(0x10167ec0)
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Re^2: *FOO{THING} syntax used on a lexical variable by nobull (Friar) on Jun 12, 2005 at 12:44 UTC
After the open, $fh is a reference to an IO handle (the thing that goes in the IO slot of a glob). No, it's a GLOB ref.	[reply]
Re^3: *FOO{THING} syntax used on a lexical variable by Anonymous Monk on Jun 12, 2005 at 14:54 UTC
my $sc = <fh>; print $sc;	[reply]
Re^3: *FOO{THING} syntax used on a lexical variable by ysth (Canon) on Jun 13, 2005 at 03:42 UTC
Er, yeah, well...so it is.	[reply]