After reading Randal's March 2000 LM column and learning that you can assign a filehandle to a scalar by doing something like:
open(FILE, $filename) or die "whatever"; $value = *FILE{IO}; I am wondering if there are other, perhaps better, ways of doing this? FYI, I googled for "assigning filehandle to variable perl" and a couple other searches, but only came up with pages directing how to read from a filehandle into a scalar. Regards, Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>