In a tie constructor (TIESCALAR, TIEARRAY, TIEHASH, or TIEHANDLE) how can I access the value of the thing being tied? I really want to know how to do this for a TIEHANDLE, but I assume that the procedure would be about the same for any tie constructor. Similarly, can I set the tied variable during an untie?

Example code : I want to access the value of $t (or whatever the variable being tied is) in the TIESCALAR call. How can I get it? Or can I get it at all? 

package TestTie;
sub TIESCALAR{
  my $pkg=shift;
  my $obj=[] ;
  bless $obj, $pkg;
  return $obj;
}
package main;
my $t=9;
tie $t , 'TestTie';

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I've been through the perltie docs, the Tie chapter of Advanced Perl Programming and the source code for several of the Tie:: modules, but can't seem to find any pointers.

In reply to Access to tied variable in the tie constructor??? by lhoward

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