Re: opening files using handles, objects etc

You want to look at the ref function. For more complex checks (to see if an object is a subclass of another object of if an object implements a certain method) then look at the isa and can methods from UNIVERSAL and the blessed function from Scalar::Util.

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Re^2: opening files using handles, objects etc by ftumsh (Scribe) on Jul 06, 2006 at 10:39 UTC
Thinking about it... It would make sense to convert all possibilities to just the one in my object, would it be better to store it as a file handle or an IO::File object? I'm only writing text to the file, not doing anything special. Oh and reading from another file.	[reply]
Re^3: opening files using handles, objects etc by Gilimanjaro (Hermit) on Jul 06, 2006 at 12:24 UTC
Well thought; I recommend expecting a IO::Handle object... That way, you leave it up to the users if they're passing plain old perl handles, or IO::Scalar or their own implementation on a handle.	[reply]
Re^2: opening files using handles, objects etc by ftumsh (Scribe) on Jul 06, 2006 at 10:33 UTC
For some reason I thought that there might be a bit of magic involved! Thanks for your time	[reply]