Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] using DATA for testing

[bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)]

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:00:36 -0400 (EDT), Paul Corr wrote:

>I was wondering if there was any way to map one file handle onto another
>for testing. For example, I have a script with 'while (<INPUT>)' where
>INPUT is the result of 'open INPUT, $inputfile;'
>It would be handy to
>change one line mapping INPUT to DATA during testing, rather than
>switching every instance of INPUT to DATA.

Another approach:

	open DATA, $inputfile unless $testing;

Keep the name of the handle as "DATA", but (re-)opening it explicitely
will use the file instead of the appended data.

	Bart.

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