If you want to pass a filehandle like that I would recommend using the FileHandle module.
As your script stands, however, you have no reason to pass the filehandle to the subroutine. You can just do a "print ERRLOG $scalar" to print. -----Original Message----- From: Ted Fines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:17 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: 'use strict' and filehandles Hi, I'm running into a Cach-22 with 'use strict', and filehandles. I have a program which opens two log files at the beginning: open(INFLOG,">>$info_log") || die "Could not append to $info_log_file. Quitting.\n"; open(ERRLOG,">>$error_log") || die "Could not append to $error_log_file. Quitting.\n"; Then throughout the program, different subroutines print to the log files, e.g. in code sample A below, ERRLOG and INFLOG are declared at the start. A subroutine tries to pass 'ERRLOG' or 'INFLOG' to the 'log' subroutine as a parameter. With 'strict refs' in use, this code generates this error: L:\>test.pl Bareword "ERRLOG" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at L:\test.pl line 22. <snip> CODE SAMPLE A START------------------------------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $info_log = 'testinfo.log'; my $error_log = 'testerror.log'; open(INFLOG,">>$info_log") || die "Could not append to $info_log. Quitting.\n"; open(ERRLOG,">>$error_log") || die "Could not append to $error_log. Quitting.\n"; # <snip> sub log { my ($logfile,$msg)[EMAIL PROTECTED]; print $logfile "$msg\n"; } ------------------------------------------------------CODE SAMPLE A END -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
