note Random_Walk <p>For those intrigued as I was here is a link to <a href=http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/lib/Symbol.pm> Symbol</a> documentation. And a brief cut'n'past from aforementioned docs ... </p><p> <i><code>Symbol::gensym</code> creates an anonymous glob and returns a reference to it. Such a glob reference can be used as a file or directory handle.</i> </p> A search found it used to open a bunch of file handled in the days before you could do lexical file handles (see first answer in [id://383906]) <p>Cheers,<br>R.</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-382261"> Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt! </div></div> 211441 211560