File handlers

[Capellone]

Hello,

What kind of perl variable is a file handler? How to make a file handler to be an "instance memeber"? I have a perl class module for writing to a file - each object (insatnce of this class) write to its own file; i want any object to keep its file handler, but i dont know how to declare a file handler as a "instance variable" (altough i did it with "regular" perl variables). Could you help?

Thanks.

 

[Capellone]

I know:

use Symbol;
#

sub new
{
	my $class = shift;
	my $this = bless {}, $class;
        $this->{FILEHANDLER} = gensym;	
        open ($this->{FILEHANDLER},">$fileName") || die "Unable To Open file $fileName";
        
	return $this;
}