Re: OUTFILE question(s)

Greg wrote:
I am trying to get the contents of my variable OUTFILE

What does that mean? OUTFILE is not a Perl variable. Perl variables
start with either $, @, or %. I'm guessing that you meant OUTFILE is
an open file handle. If it is, in fact, a file opened for reading,
than OUTFILE is a poor choice of name. If it's a file open for
writing, then it makes no sense to talk about the "contents" of
OUTFILE.

Please post a short-but-complete script that demonstrates the problem
you're having.

assigned to
another variable and I can't seem to figure out how to do it.

Have you bothered reading the documentation for the language you're
using?

I've tried my $file = OUTFILE;

What made you think that would work? Randomly typing characters and
just seeing what happens is a poor method of programming.

Is there something very stupid that I'm missing?

Yes. The documentation that tells you how to read files.

Any help, criticism, good or bad would be appreciated,

Start here: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html#Files-and-I%2fO and
read it all, then read the documentations that it refers you to as well
(perlfunc for open(), and perlopentut)

Paul Lalli

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