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

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