Re^2: Suppress/Reactivate STDERR

STDERR is not necessarily the same thing as file descriptor 3

s/3/2/

In recent Perl there's no need to use package variables for file handles to achieve this.

open my $olderr, '>&', \*STDERR or die $!;
#...
open STDERR, '>&', $olderr or die $!;
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Re^3: Suppress/Reactivate STDERR by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 16, 2006 at 18:07 UTC
Re: 2 vs 3 -- Thanks, typo! Re: lexical file handles -- True. I just went along with the code that was already there. Lexicals can be used for file handles since Perl 5.6.0.	[reply]