#!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; { package MyTie; use parent 'Tie::Handle::Base'; use Class::Method::Modifiers qw/before around/; use Data::Dump; for my $method (@Tie::Handle::Base::ALL_METHODS) { before $method => sub { dd $method, @_[1..$#_] }; } around 'READLINE' => sub { my $orig = shift; my @a = wantarray ? ($orig->(@_)) : (scalar $orig->(@_)); main::mySub(@a); return wantarray ? @a : $a[0]; }; } use Data::Dump; sub mySub { dd "mySub", @_; } #open my $fh = MyTie->new, '<', 'mydata' or die $!; my $fh = MyTie->new(*DATA); my $line = <$fh>; print "Scalar: $line"; $line = <$fh>; print "Scalar: $line"; my @array = <$fh>; print "Array: ", @array; close $fh; __DATA__ Foo Bar Quz Baz #### ("TIEHANDLE", *main::DATA) "READLINE" ("mySub", "Foo\n") Scalar: Foo "READLINE" ("mySub", "Bar\n") Scalar: Bar "READLINE" ("mySub", "Quz\n", "Baz\n") Array: Quz Baz "CLOSE" "DESTROY"