Re: Other ways to assign a filehandle to a variable?

[JupiterHost.Net]

Use lexical ones in the first place.

  open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "open $filename, stopped" ;

And if you're gogint to die you might as well say why :)

... or die "open $filename failed: $!" ;

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