Hi Christopher,
I just dealt with a corrolary issue--how NOT to pass a file handle, which seems to
happen by default if I declare the handle inline without scalar notation:
open(MY_FILE, $FileName). In a recursive routine such as:
sub ListFilesContainingText {
#... variable declareations et al
nm, figured it out. you can pass open a scalar like this:
open($myfile, "blah");
ParseOneItem($myfile);
and use it in the sub like this:
sub ParseOneItem() {
my $fh = shift();
my $line = <$fh>;
}
=)
-- christopher
On Saturday 14 December 2002 03:10 am, christopher j botta
