On Jun 7, 11:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lalli) wrote: > On Jun 7, 10:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rodrick Brown) wrote: > > > Is there a simple method to read data from scalar like a file handle? > > Yes. Simpler than you might imagine. Just pass a reference to your > scalar to open(), rather than the name of a file.
> open my $fh, '<', \$data I should point out this only works on Perl versions 5.8 and above. if you have 5.6 or earlier, consider upgrading. . . Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/