in reply to capturing stdout from a piped open

This works: 
open *STDOUT, ">", $ogg_out or die $!;
...
close *STDOUT;

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Re^2: capturing stdout from a piped open
by zentara (Cardinal) on Aug 30, 2005 at 14:01 UTC
    I get errors when I try it. When I do 
    close STDOUT;
my $ogg_out;
open  *STDOUT, ">", \$ogg_out or die $!;

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    It starts to run, but quickly fails with 
    Failed writing data to output stream
Broken pipe

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