Re^3: Printing to a File from Sub

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Putting the filehandle in parens told Perl that it is the argument to print, and so you wanted to print it to STDOUT - which is not what you wanted. You wanted to say
print $fhout "this is a test\n";
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It should also be noted that the variable $fhout is actually still in scope in your subroutine, so you technically could just use it. It is, however, better practice to pass it in.

Edit: choroba is correct as s/he notes below. I did mistake the curlies for parens.

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Re^4: Printing to a File from Sub by choroba (Cardinal) on Aug 30, 2010 at 16:50 UTC
Not true. The problem is `$fhout` contains the number of elements in `@_`, not the filehandle. The syntax `print {$fh} "out"` is even recommended in PBP.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Printing to a File from Sub by suaveant (Parson) on Aug 30, 2010 at 19:33 UTC
Yes, those aren't parens, they are squiggle brackets, easy mistake to make with the right font and font size. - Ant - Some of my best work - (1 2 3)	[reply]

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