Salutations, fellow Monks.

I've been looking at IO::InnerFile and I'm getting a puzzling error:

Can't locate object method "tell" via package "IO::Handle" at /usr/lib
+/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/IO/InnerFile.pm line 233.

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I'm basically running the sample code found in the POD for IO::InnerFile:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::InnerFile;

open(my $fh, "< test_data");

my $inner = IO::InnerFile->new($fh, '100', '50');

while (<$inner>) {
  print;
}

close($fh);

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As far as I can see, IO::InnerFile isn't inheriting from IO::Handle in any way.
Is there some magic related to the tied filehandle(s) that I'm not aware of?

I've tested this on perl-5.6.1 and perl-5.8.0-thread-multi, both on Linux, with the same results.

I've had a look at the source for the module, and I can't see anything amiss - I feel I'm overlooking something obvious.

Could someone enlighten me to the cause of the wierdness here?

Cheers,

BazB

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In reply to IO::InnerFile inheriting from IO::Handle? by BazB

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