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 "DESTROY"ed, for instance when the object goes out of scope. SEE ALSO SelectSaver AUTHOR Chris Williams 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.