Re: globbing filehandles in arrays

<> is two different operators. Based on its operand, it's an alias for readline or it's an alias for glob. Here are two ways of forcing readline:

while (my $line = readline($FH[$i])) {
   ...
}
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my $fh = $FH[$i];
while (my $line = <$fh>) {
   ...
}
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There's still the question of why you are using global variables for no reason.

open(FILE_A,">","a.txt") || ...;
open(FILE_B,">","b.txt") || ...;
my @FH=(*FILE_A,*FILE_B);
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should be

open(my $FILE_A,">","a.txt") || ...;
open(my $FILE_B,">","b.txt") || ...;
my @FH=($FILE_A,$FILE_B);
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You're using 3-arg open which was introduced at the same time as lexical file handles, so it's not a backwards compatibility issue.

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Re^2: globbing filehandles in arrays by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Jan 23, 2009 at 14:04 UTC
Or perhaps: `my @FH; for my $file ( qw/a.txt b.txt/ ) { open( $FH[ @FH ], '>', $file ) \|\| ...; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: globbing filehandles in arrays by why_bird (Pilgrim) on Jan 26, 2009 at 08:35 UTC
You're using 3-arg open which was introduced at the same time as lexical file handles, so it's not a backwards compatibility issue. Wow, I have to say I'm surprised that I really didn't know about something as basic as that!! Just goes to show what perlmonks can teach you. Strange also because I've found the global non-lexical file handles a real pain in the past and have never realised you could do it like that. I consider myself well and truly corrected (and pleased!) For future reference, here is the (most?) relevent perldoc documentation, which strangely I hadn't come across (or perhaps rather read thoroughly) before. Also, perlopentut says the above explicitly, which I notice now that I come to look for it! It still seems to be true though that the vast majority of examples in open and perlopentut are given using those old global filehandles, which I find a bit strange if it's not 'recommended' behaviour (I would certainly not recommend it!). Is this just because the documentation is old, or is there another reason? Thanks why_bird ........ Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Groucho Marx .......	[reply]
Re^3: globbing filehandles in arrays by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 26, 2009 at 13:54 UTC
Probably just because noone got around to doing it ...until recently. It's finally been fixed in bleed (5.12 to be) and backported to maint-5.10 (5.10.1 to be). There's still lots of example with non-lexical file handles if you're looking for something to do :)	[reply]