Re^2: Close STDOUT/STDERR temporarily

[sundialsvc4]

Rolf, are you saying that the OP’s strategy would work?   I presume that you are referring to the paragraph in perldoc -f open which begins “Here is a script that saves, redirects, and restores "STDOUT" and "STDERR" using various methods:” but I do get pretty-lost pretty-fast when reading it.   Could you perhaps offer a couple of specific examples that do, specifically, what the OP has in mind to do?   Or, otherwise, elaborate on how you’d do it?

[LanX]

There are plenty of specific and working examples in this thread!

The confusion stems from demonstrating more than one way to do it within the same sample script (like 3 vs 2 argument open AND lexical filehandles vs bare words AND addressing filehandles as globrefs)

I have to admit that Perldocs are overly confusing in this respect.