Hello, I am trying to make a copy of the filehandle, that is *not* sharing file position. I am parsing a big file, and at some point I want to keep a copy for later new parsing. I tried several things, but file positions keep getting shared. Here is an exemple of what I tried : 

my $filename = $ARGV[0];
my $nb_lines = 0;
open (my $file, $filename) or die "Can't open '$filename': $!";
my $hdl_sauv;
while (<$file>) {
    $nb_lines++ ;
    if ($nb_lines == 5) {
    open ($hdl_sauv, "<",$file) || die "cannot open $file\n";
    }
}

my $saved_line = <$hdl_sauv>;
print "$saved_line\n";

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I want $hdl_sauv to be a pointer to the position 5. This code isn't working, but I don't know how to write it. Any tip? Thanks!

In reply to How to make a copy of filehandle by loituma

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