I'm not aware that it is possible. I have build hashrefs in the past to keep the two pieces of information together. In the simplest case, it looks something like this (warning, untested code ahead):

use IO::File;
my $file;
$file->{name} = '/tmp/foo';
$file->{fd}   = IO::File->new( $file->{name} ) or die "$!\n"; # TODO: 
+more explicit error message

# this lets me do stuff like

$file->{fd}->print( "The name of this file is $file->{name}\n" );
$file->{fd}->close();
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But that means that you have to start passing these hashrefs around, instead of raw IO::File objects, so that may mean major surgery on your code.

And now I will probably be tarred and feathered for not knowing that the IO::File or one of its ancestors has some really useful method, like name() or something.

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