Re^3: write from filehandle to variable

[chibiryuu]

use if $] < 5.008, 'IO::Scalar';
                 # IO::Scalar is needed in pre-5.8 Perl

my $var = '';    # this is the variable we will be writing to or readi
+ng from

my $fh;          # this is a filehandle, reads and writes will go to $
+var
if ($] < 5.008) {$fh = new IO::Scalar \$var}
else            {open $fh, '+<',      \$var}
$fh or die "can't get filehandle for \$var: $!";

print $fh "These print statements will\n";
print $fh "be appended to \$var.\n";

seek $fh, 0, 0;  # reading and writing <$fh> will seek in $var.
my $var1 = <$fh>;
my $var2 = <$fh>;

print $var1;     # print "These print statements will\n"
print $var2;     # print "be appended to \$var.\n"