Net::protoent(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Net::protoent(3pm)
NAME
Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
functions
SYNOPSIS
use Net::protoent;
$p = getprotobyname(shift || 'tcp') || die "no proto";
printf "proto for %s is %d, aliases are %s\n",
$p->name, $p->proto, "@{$p->aliases}";
use Net::protoent qw(:FIELDS);
getprotobyname(shift || 'tcp') || die "no proto";
print "proto for $p_name is $p_proto, aliases are @p_aliases\n";
DESCRIPTION
This module's default exports override the core getprotoent(),
getprotobyname(), and getnetbyport() functions, replacing them with
versions that return "Net::protoent" objects. They take default second
arguments of "tcp". This object has methods that return the similarly
named structure field name from the C's protoent structure from
netdb.h; namely name, aliases, and proto. The aliases method returns
an array reference, the rest scalars.
You may also import all the structure fields directly into your
namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. (Note
that this still overrides your core functions.) Access these fields as
variables named with a preceding "p_". Thus, "$proto_obj->name()"
corresponds to $p_name if you import the fields. Array references are
available as regular array variables, so for example "@{
$proto_obj->aliases() }" would be simply @p_aliases.
The getproto() function is a simple front-end that forwards a numeric
argument to getprotobyport(), and the rest to getprotobyname().
To access this functionality without the core overrides, pass the "use"
an empty import list, and then access function functions with their
full qualified names. On the other hand, the built-ins are still
available via the "CORE::" pseudo-package.
NOTE
While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct
module to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.
AUTHOR
Tom Christiansen
perl v5.24.0 2015-10-14 Net::protoent(3pm)
perl 5.24 - Generated Fri Nov 18 18:28:37 CST 2016