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Re^2: duping a filehandle

by smackdab (Pilgrim)
on Jan 14, 2007 at 05:02 UTC ( [id://594607]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: duping a filehandle
in thread duping a filehandle

THANKS!!! I wish I knew unix better...I found a "seek($fh_log, 0, 0);" before returning from my subroutine put the filepointer back at the top, so all is good!

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Re^3: duping a filehandle
by ysth (Canon) on Jan 14, 2007 at 22:38 UTC
    Alternatively, pass just the filename to your sub and open it there using a different file handle (preferably lexical).

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