Re: Tie'ing writes to formats

I faintly remember that it is possible to name individual slots in hash table entries, along the lines of $::slot{SCALAR} and $::slot{FORMAT}.

While you can access individual slots in globs to get access a given datatype, you can't get a FORMAT slot.
HTH

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Re: Re: Tie'ing writes to formats by ruscoekm (Monk) on Nov 02, 2002 at 19:02 UTC
Thanks. It is beginning to sound as though there is no way (hesitates to say this, as there is always a way) I can trap the format output of P::RD (which is opened to a dup(2)ed STDERR) short of doing something extreme like trying to forking a child to poll for output on all of the parent's filehandles.	[reply]