When using the diamond operator to iterate over all the files in @ARGV, I'd like to be able to send the output from each file to a separate place rather than all together. Is the following code the only way to do this? It seems that there would be a way around checking to see if the filename in $ARGV has changed on every single line of input? Thanks,

Dana 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $oldarg;
while (<>){
        if ($ARGV ne $oldarg){
                my $outputfile="out".$ARGV;
                open OUTPUT,">", $outputfile;
                $oldarg=$ARGV;
        }
        print OUTPUT  "$_";
}

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In reply to Changing the output filehandle while iterating input files. by reedx032

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