Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!rhesus!bin From: bin@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: perl filehandle question Message-ID: <336@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> Date: 5 Jul 88 18:26:19 GMT Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 18 If I have a perl subroutine such as sub x { local ($fileh); # file handle ... } how do I reference the file handle? E.g., should I say open ($fileh, "/tmp/junk"); or open (fileh, "/tmp/junk"); I presume the latter from the documentation, but it seems inconsistent to have to declare it with the dollar sign and use it without...