: Global symbol "$fh" requires explicit package name at
: livonia.pl line 22.
: Execution of livonia.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
You have "use strict" turned on, so put "my" in front of $fh in line
22. to give it scope. "strict" would rather you didn't use globals.
: Also can some one suggest a better way to handle the IO I'm
: wondering about
: the globtype and that is why I used the \*FH in my subroutine.
Take a look at the FileHandle module, which comes with Perl:
% perldoc FileHandle
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