use warnings; use 5.016; package Tie::Handle::FancyThingy { use parent 'Tie::Handle::Argv'; use File::Basename qw/fileparse/; sub OPEN { my ($self, $origfn) = @_; my ($fn, $dirs, $ext) = fileparse($origfn, qr/\.[^\.]+$/); my $outfn = $dirs.$fn.'.out'; print STDERR "Debug: $origfn => $outfn\n"; open ARGVOUT, '>', $outfn or die "$outfn: $!"; select ARGVOUT; return $self->SUPER::OPEN($origfn); } sub inner_close { my $self = shift; select STDOUT; return $self->SUPER::inner_close(@_); } } tie *ARGV, 'Tie::Handle::FancyThingy'; while (<>) { chomp; say translate($_); } sub translate { return "<".shift.">" }