charles wrote: > > Era Eriksson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:41:42 -0800 (PST), > > Jeffrey Dawkins <batcomp@teleport.com> wrote: > > > open($PRICE_FILE, "../sys2.txt"); > > ^ > > Scratch the dollar sign. > > Er, no. > > To quote the Camel book on open(): "FILEHANDLE may be a directly > specified filehandle name, or an expression whose value will be used > for the filehandle. The latter is called an indirect filehandle. > Typically it is just a variable containing the name of a filehandle." > > So there are contexts in which you might want to use a scalar as > a filehandle. > > -- Charlie Quite true, however I don't recall seeing the $PRICE_FILE scalar defined in the example which is the reason for the original response. -- Bill Salivar Adobe Systems Inc. wsalivar@adobe.com work: 408-980-4043