No one has mentioned (I think) that filehandles are actually 'typeglobs' yet so I thought I'd chime in on this. They also actually do have an associated sigil: '*'.
There's plenty of explanation on filehandles in typeglobs in the following documents: perldoc perldata (Heading: 'Typeglobs and Filehandles') The 'SEE ALSO' section of the data document points to more information on typeglobs: See perlvar for a description of Perl's built-in variables and a discussion of legal variable names. See perlref, perlsub, and "Symbol Tables" in perlmod for more discussion on typeglobs and the *foo{THING} syntax. Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>