Access to Perl's empty angle "<>" operator from an actual filehandle?

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Published on 2009-10-29T00:29:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 4:53 UTC
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I like to use the nifty perl feature where reading from the empty angle operator <> magically gives your program UNIX filter semantics, but I'd like to be able to access this feature through an actual filehandle (or IO::Handle object, or similar), so that I can do things like pass it into subroutines and such. Is there any way to do this?

This question is particularly hard to google, because searching for "angle operator" and "filehandle" just tells me how to read from filehandles using the angle operator.

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