dmuz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How do I do this: $var=STDOUT; open(LOG,$var); print LOG;

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Re: How do I do this: code$var=STDOUT; open(LOG,$var); print LOG;/code
by japhy (Canon) on May 13, 2001 at 09:02 UTC
    I think you want: 
    open DUP, ">&STDOUT";
print DUP "this goes to STDOUT, really\n";
close DUP;

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Re: How do I open another handle to STDOUT
by dailylemma (Scribe) on May 13, 2001 at 16:09 UTC
    It seems that 

    open( LOG, '>-');
print LOG;

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    does the trick, although i'm not sure how to do
    this for a general filehadle.
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Re: How do I open another handle to STDOUT
by lindex (Friar) on May 14, 2001 at 00:22 UTC
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