Wiggins d'Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Though it seems a bit odd that you want to recursively read a > filehandle.
It certainly would be a cool way to handle include directives when parsing config files, i.e. my $conf = "/etc/apache/httpd.conf" open( my $fh, $conf ) or die "Can't open '$conf': $!"; my @todo = ( $fh ); while( @todo ){ $fh = pop @todo; while( my $line = <$fh> ){ # parse config # ... if( $line =~ m/^\s+include\s+(\S+)/i ){ push @todo, $fh; my $fname = qualify( dequote( $1 ) ); open( $fh, $fname ) or die "Can't open '$fname': $!"; } } } I'll have to try that some time ;-) Cheers, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>