I am writing a package that has a subroutine that creates a reference to a file handle so that it can be used later by another routine in the package. The code that creates the reference and saves it is: 
sub setDestFile {
  my($self, $file) = @_;
  local(*F);
  open( F, ">$file");
  $fh = \*F;
  $self->{'destfile'} = $fh;
}

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The routine that later uses this reference is: 
sub output {
  my($self, $text) = @_;

  print $self->{'destfile'} "$text";
}

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The above routine produces the following error when I try to run the program: String found where operator expected near "} "text"" (Missing operator before "$text"?) I tried to change the routine like this: 
sub output {
  my($self, $text) = @_;

  my $fh = $self->{'destfile'};

  print $fh "$text";
}

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This change doesn't produce the error but nothing gets written to the file. HELP

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