Re^3: In memory filehandles

Or you could just use FileHandle;. Or you could push @IO::Handle::ISA, "IO::File". Or call $fh->IO::File::seek(...).

Except for giving easy access to the per-filehandle punctuation variables, I think the whole "let's pretend filehandles are objects" thing is pretty silly.

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Re^4: In memory filehandles by polettix (Vicar) on Jan 27, 2006 at 09:38 UTC
I generalised an actual problem I had: using in-memory filehandles with Archive::Zip. Thus, I'm stuck to passing something that a third party library likes, which basically eliminates the third solution. The second solution seems a bit overkill and not scalable, but it could come handy with proper localisation I think. The first... I'll give it a try. I'm also thinking about blessing the filehandle directly to IO::File, and see what happens. Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply]
Re^5: In memory filehandles by ysth (Canon) on Jan 27, 2006 at 10:31 UTC
You'd probably be best off just using IO::String. It looks to me like Archive::Zip would have the same problem with any filehandle opened with the open builtin, even disk files; is this the case?	[reply]
Re^6: In memory filehandles by polettix (Vicar) on Jan 27, 2006 at 11:32 UTC
The workaround with IO::File worked fine, and it doesn't require the installation of external modules in recent perls. While probably not the best for long-term production code, I find it better for example scripts that can work with the least requirement for the user. About `open()` you're right... probably. One of the thousands things I tried involved using File::Temp to get a temporary, "real-file" handle, but the `readFromFileHandle()` method continued to complain. I had to use the filename given back by File::Temp instead of the filehandle. Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply] [d/l] [select]