Closing and re-opening the DATA Filehandle

Adam has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have this script which loads a table from __DATA__ thusly:

my @Table;
sub LoadTable
{
    local $/;
    @Table = map {chomp; hex} split ' ', <DATA>;
    close DATA;
}
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Now, I close the DATA Filehandle because I don't like "<DATA> line 1." being appended to my errors and exceptions. Which is ok, so long as I only want to call that method once. But I want to call the method multiple times, which yeilds the wonderful message: "readline() on closed filehandle main::DATA at D:\test.pl line 5." Which raises the questions:

Can you re-open the DATA filehandle? How?

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