Use the opened method. It will tell you if a file handle is opened and ready.

try the following code...

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Handle;

open my $fh, '>', 'file' or die $!;

test_fh($fh);

close $fh or die $!;

test_fh($fh);

sub test_fh {
    my ($fh) = @_;
    if ($fh->opened()) {
        print "fh is opened and ready\n";
    }
    else {
        print "fh is closed\n";
    }
   return;
}
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