Bee,
Can you explain why this open statement works? How does $FH have a value?
What is the scaler value for?
Thanks,
Siegfried
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From: Bee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 3:15 PM
To: Siegfried Heintze; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why are file handles wierd?
>
> What is the logic that says all data types will be prefixed with special
> character such as "$" or "%" or "@" except file handles? Why are file
> handles weird?
>
>
If you like, you can make it look like :
open my $FH, "<", \$scalar;
while (not eof $FH) { do_something... };
close $FH;
Does it help ?
Bee
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