Greetings all, I've had a module that I wrote to do some writing of a custom file format here at work. For a while, I've been thinking of writing a tied interface to it to make the magic happen behind the scenes. However, I've been reading a bit about PerlIO layers and thought that that might be the way to go.

First things first: is one preferable over the other? I'm at the point where I don't know what I don't know...entirely clueless about the whole situation. I'm happy to do the reading, but don't know where to start.

Secondly, even if tying is the way to go, I would still like to do the PerlIO layer as an academic exercise. I tried following PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint, but I keep getting "Function not implemented", which at my level of education on the subject isn't terribly helpful. I tried to read perliol, but I'm not enough of a C-head to fully grasp it. If someone has a pointer to some higher level docs, I'd sure appreciate it.

thor

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In reply to Making my own PerlIO layer by thor

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