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THANKS!!! I wish I knew unix better...I found a "seek($fh_log, 0, 0);" before returning from my subroutine put the filepointer back at the top, so all is good!

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Re^3: duping a filehandle
by ysth (Canon) on Jan 14, 2007 at 22:38 UTC
    Alternatively, pass just the filename to your sub and open it there using a different file handle (preferably lexical).

    I'm looking for a job.

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