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$fh is a handle to a new file, which is empty and thus not really interesting to read, which is why $fh is opened for writing only. If you want to read from it, use open to explicitly for reading.

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Re^2: Read from temp file
by Thelonius (Priest) on Sep 03, 2008 at 21:45 UTC
    which is why $fh is opened for writing only
    The filehandle is opened read-write.
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