Re^3: reading image blob w/Image::Magick

Image::Magick can read from perl filehandles though:

  $image = Image::Magick->new;
  open(IMAGE, 'image.gif');
  $image->Read(file=>\*IMAGE);
  close(IMAGE);
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despite that, IO::Scalar wouldn't work?

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Re^4: reading image blob w/Image::Magick by salva (Canon) on Apr 16, 2006 at 22:12 UTC
`open(IMAGE, 'image.gif')` opens a real file using the OS services but IO::Scalar objects exists only inside perl. You can see the difference using the `fileno()` builtin: `open IMAGE, "image.gif"; printf "fn: %d\n", fileno(IMAGE); my $ios = IO::Scalar->new; printf "fn: %d\n", fileno($ios);` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]