On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Kipp, James wrote:
> This is interesting stuff. When would one use this as opposed to a regulare
> file handle. In the above example is $foo undefined before this statement.
> Sorry to bother, but this is cool stuff and just want to understand it more.
You would use a filehandle ref, for instance, when you want to keep it in
an array or a hash, or blessed into a class. At least that's when I've
used filehandle refs. I'm sure there are many other reasons to do so.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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