in reply to overriding print built-in

While you can't override print, you may be able to achieve your desired result using a tie instead.

For example, Sprog uses this module to translate code like this ...

  print @args;

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... into code like this ...

  $some_object->print(@args);

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Re^2: overriding print built-in
by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 12, 2006 at 03:08 UTC

    Specifically you're going to be interested in the TIEHANDLE and related routines from perltie; and perhaps IO::Scalar or the like for inspiration.

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Re^2: overriding print built-in
by jeremyh (Beadle) on Apr 13, 2006 at 17:12 UTC
    Thank you, this looks like it will work for what I want to do, which is to make a custom output formatting function send output from one server to another over an Oracle DB link, without touching the code of the custom output function.

    Thanks again,

    Jeremy

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