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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: How to make a local(FILEHANDLE)?
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Date: 31 May 91 20:13:28 GMT
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From the keyboard of FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Paul Bijnens):
:I have a filehandle that is only used in a subroutine.  To avoid
:stepping on some other global filehandle, how do I make this
:filehandle local to this subroutine.  I cannot use local(), because
:its elements must be legal lvalues.
:I want to do something like this:
:
:sub makeassoc {             # learn file freqtop by heart
:    local(FH);              # this is illegal...???

right.  you need 

    local(*FH)

this is question #23 in the FAQ, which I'll be updating a wee bit
and reposting some time this weekend. 

--tom
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