Re: opening files using handles, objects etc

[davorg]

You want to look at the ref function. For more complex checks (to see if an object is a subclass of another object of if an object implements a certain method) then look at the isa and can methods from UNIVERSAL and the blessed function from Scalar::Util.

[ftumsh]

Thinking about it... It would make sense to convert all possibilities to just the one in my object, would it be better to store it as a file handle or an IO::File object? I'm only writing text to the file, not doing anything special. Oh and reading from another file.

[Gilimanjaro]

Well thought; I recommend expecting a IO::Handle object... That way, you leave it up to the users if they're passing plain old perl handles, or IO::Scalar or their own implementation on a handle.

[ftumsh]

For some reason I thought that there might be a bit of magic involved! Thanks for your time