Ted Fines wrote: > Hi, Hello,
> 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. > Execution of L:\test.pl aborted due to compilation errors. > > OK. I've tried a few things to work around this, but no matter what I've > tried > I just get an error that I can't do something with strict something-else (refs > or subs) is in use. > > If I turn off strict it all just works, of course. Would someone please share > how to solve this problem, while using the 'strict' directive? perldoc -q "How do I pass filehandles between subroutines" perldoc -q "How can I use a filehandle indirectly" John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>