I thought you might be able to do... 
#!perl -w
use strict;

sub my_print(@) {
    my @stuff = @_;
    print STDOUT time,": @stuff\n";
}

*print = *my_print;

print "Hello World!";

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but you can't so don't listen to me.

the warning message isn't useful in this case but if I change it to &print = &my_print; it prints... 

Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call at C:\Perl\scripts\newprint.pl
+ line 8.
991047768:

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so it reckons I can't do it but it has printed the time and the newline from the function just without the @_.

can this be made to work?

larryk

"Argument is futile - you will be ignorralated!"

In reply to Re: Tacking a function on to STDOUT? by larryk
in thread Tacking a function on to STDOUT? by Anonymous Monk

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