Net::protoent(3)					      Net::protoent(3)

NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
     functions

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

      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    [Toc]    [Back]

     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    [Toc]    [Back]

     While this	class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module
     to	build a	struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.

AUTHOR    [Toc]    [Back]

     Tom Christiansen









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