NAME

Lexical::select - provides a lexically scoped currently selected filehandle

VERSION

version 0.10

SYNOPSIS

  use Lexical::select;

  open my $fh, '>', 'fubar' or die "Oh noes!\n";

  {
    my $lxs = lselect $fh;

    print "Something wicked goes to \$fh \n";

  }

  print "Back on STDOUT\n";

DESCRIPTION

Changing the currently selected filehandle with select and changing it back to the previously selected filehandle can be slightly tedious. Wouldn't it be great to have something handle this boilerplate, especially in lexical scopes.

This is where Lexical::select comes in.

Lexical::select provides the lselect function. As demonstrated in the SYNOPSIS, lselect will change the currently selected filehandle to the filehandle of your choice for the duration of the enclosing lexical scope.

It should be noted that the duration of the selected filehandle is limited to the lexical scope, not the effects of the selected filehandle.

FUNCTIONS

Functions exported by default.

lselect

Takes one parameter, a filehandle that will become the currently selected filehandle for the duration of the enclosing scope.

Returns an object, which provides the restore method.

You can then either restore the currently selected filehandle back manually or let the object fall out of scope, which automagically restores.

METHODS

restore

Explicitly restores the currently selected filehandle back to the original filehandle. This is called automagically when the object is DESTROYed, for instance when the object goes out of scope.

SEE ALSO

SelectSaver

AUTHOR

Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Chris Williams.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.