Or perhaps the question is, is it possible at all? I would like to create a function that can take a file name or a previously opened generic perl filehandle and turn that into and IO::All object for processing. I haven't been able to create a usable IO::All object from a filehandle to this point. Here are some of the scenarios I've tried: 

use IO::All; 
use IO::File; 
open G, '<test.txt'; 
$h = IO::File->new_from_fd(fileno(*G{IO}), 'r'); 
$i = io($h); 
print $i->getline

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The docs of IO::All seem to imply that this should work, but when I run this (Win XP, ActiveState Perl 5.8.8, IO:All v0.33), I get: 

Can't call method "opened" on an undefined value at C:/perl/site/lib/I
+O/All/File.pm line 78.

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I've also tried variations without the IO::File intermediary, i.e., $i = io(*G{IO}), $i = io(\*G), $i = io->handle(*G), all to no avail.

Has anyone been down the path before and have a workable solution to this?

Update: This is now in RT.

Thanks,

--DrWhy

"If God had meant for us to think for ourselves he would have given us brains. Oh, wait..."

In reply to How do I create an IO::All object from a pre-existing filehandle by DrWhy

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