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| author | Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> | 1999-05-08 14:16:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> | 1999-05-08 14:16:30 +0000 |
| commit | 4592e6caefc41a75573f112714d170071892a537 (patch) | |
| tree | 175f11b85a9a6c4b3cd13613edc0b305d47b6976 /pod/perltie.pod | |
| parent | 1d8d4d2a360e43d2337420c8e4a3eafc2e301cba (diff) | |
| download | perl-4592e6caefc41a75573f112714d170071892a537.tar.gz | |
Implement OPEN, EOF, SEEK, TELL, BINMODE and FILENO as TIEHANDLE methods.
Provide Tie::StdHandle
Basic update of docs.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3330
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perltie.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perltie.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perltie.pod b/pod/perltie.pod index 665265818d..581b4abd65 100644 --- a/pod/perltie.pod +++ b/pod/perltie.pod @@ -621,7 +621,9 @@ This is partially implemented now. A class implementing a tied filehandle should define the following methods: TIEHANDLE, at least one of PRINT, PRINTF, WRITE, READLINE, GETC, -READ, and possibly CLOSE and DESTROY. +READ, and possibly CLOSE and DESTROY. The class can also provide: BINMODE, +OPEN, EOF, FILENO, SEEK, TELL - if the corresponding perl operators are +used on the handle. It is especially useful when perl is embedded in some other program, where output to STDOUT and STDERR may have to be redirected in some |