* James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> [2015-07-19 01:25]:
> ISTR that there's some magic you can perform with 'select' to obtain
> this objective, but I can't seem to locate what I have in mind on the
> network.

perldoc -f select # ?

> What I want is something that, with just core Perl will be callable
> like this:
>
>      my $captured_verbose_output =
>          _run_for_verbose( sub {@created = mkpath($dir, 1)} );
>      is(
>          $captured_verbose_output,
>          "mkdir $base\nmkdir $dir\n",
>          'mkpath verbose (old style 1)'
>      );
>
> ... where _run_for_verbose() has this look:
>
>      sub _run_for_verbose {
>          my $code = shift;
           open my $strfh, '>', \
>          my $captured_verbose_output;
           my $prevfh = select $strfh;
>          &$code;
           select $prevfh;
>          return $captured_verbose_output;
>      }
>
> Suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

HTH

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