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True. I was quoting directly from perldoc perlfunc examples for open. Which seams different from the perldoc open.

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Re^4: passing file handle to functions
by japhy (Canon) on May 18, 2006 at 11:38 UTC
    Wow. That example should probably just go away from the docs. It's not strict-safe and it doesn't even make sense: the filehandle variable is 'fh01' every time.
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