in reply to Re^2: Snarky comments on the ddj perl quiz (nein)
in thread Snarky comments on the ddj perl quiz

Update I misread the question for the third time, and thought it was trying to open a filehandle to an existing fileHANDLE, not an existing file.

The correct way to open a filehandle to an existing filehandle is to duplicate it:

open KAREN, ">&sw"

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