Mighty Monks,

I've been reading through "Network Programming with Perl" and, while working through some of the examples, I ran into a problem using IO::File to redirect standard output (STDOUT). I thought the following code would print "Here's some data\n" to 'test.log':

1 #! /usr/bin/perl
2 
3 use strict;
4 use warnings;
5 
6 use IO::File;
7
8 my $logfile = 'test.log';
9  
10 STDOUT->open($logfile, '>') or die "Can't re-direct STDOUT:$!";
11 
12 print "Here's some data...\n";
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but instead, I get the following error:

Can't locate object method "open" via package "IO::Handle" (perhaps yo
+u forgot to load "IO::Handle"?) at ./redirect_stdout line 11.

shell returned 255
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But the following works on my created filehandle:

1 #! /usr/bin/perl
2
3 use strict;
4 use warnings;
5 
6 my $logfile = 'test.log';
7 my $FH = new IO::File;
8 
9 $FH->open($logfile, '>') or die "Can't open $logfile for writing:$!"
+;
10 
11 $FH->print("Here's some data...\n");
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What's going on here?
njcodewarrior