I am trying to make an which is basicaly a IO::Socket::INET object with a few extra methods. As far as I can tell I need to use somthing todo with tie, but I have been unable to find much information.

Idealy I would like to beable to create the object using a normal constructor like I normaly would and straight away beable to straight away use like a filehandle

http://www.engelschall.com/~sb/download/pkg/Tie-Handle-3.0.README

from the information at the above url I assumed that the following should work: 

package Listen;
require Tie::Handle;

@ISA = qw(Tie::Handle);

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Socket::INET;

sub new
{
    #constructor
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = {};
    bless $self;
    $self->tie(new IO::Socket::INET(Listen => 1, LocalPort => 1863, Re
+useAddr => 1));
    return $self;
}

1;

[download]
and then in the main packge: 
use listen;

my $test = new Listen;

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However this doesnt seem to work. I have also tried various other things, to no avail.

Any advice would be greatly appriciated,

Alan

In reply to Tie and Tie::Handle by Anonymous Monk

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