Re: Using Strings as File Handlers

There is another way, albeit not as good as Corion's. See: perlfaq5. Try this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $string = 'my-test-string';

open(my $fh, '>', \$string) 
or die "Could not open string for writing";
print $fh "my-test-string\n";

open($fh, '<', \$string)
or die "Could not open string for reading";

my $x = <$fh>;
print $x, "\n";
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Re^2: Using Strings as File Handlers by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 04, 2010 at 09:20 UTC
Oh - that is a different interpretation of the question, but it might well be that I misunderstood the question. This solution will use a string instead of a file on disk and access it as a file handle.	[reply]