in reply to Lexical scoping for filehandles, pre perl 5.8

I think lexical handles were available since perl 5.6, anyway, use local, as in 
{
    local HANDLE;
    opendir HANDLE, $dir or die "Couldn't open $dir : $!\n";
    ...
}
# left scope, HANDLE is what it was before

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Re^2: Lexical scoping for filehandles, pre perl 5.8
by phl.jns (Novice) on Oct 23, 2008 at 11:16 UTC
    That just produces the following error:- Can't modify constant item in local at ... That happpens on v5 and v5.8
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      fixed now! Had put an asterisk in front of the filehandle name:- 
      local *HANDLE

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      Thanks, Phil
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