Re^2: selecting from a number of different input sources.

This is how I am opening up the file to read, not sure what do I need to do to read the text files as a socket instead, and how that would help.

my $io = new IO::Handle;
open (my $fh, '<', $FILE) or die $!;

if ($io->fdopen(fileno($fh), "r")) {
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Re^3: selecting from a number of different input sources. by almut (Canon) on Jul 21, 2010 at 17:40 UTC
It's not immediately clear from the docs, but just saying `use IO::Handle` entitles you to call IO::Handle methods on normal file handles like your already opened `$fh`. In other words, your snippet could be simplified as follows: `use IO::Handle; open (my $fh, '<', $FILE) or die $!; # then simply call method from IO::Handle $fh->getline();` [download] This doesn't answer the question how to make a socket out of a regular file, but I thought it's worth mentioning nevertheless...	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: selecting from a number of different input sources.
by almut (Canon) on Jul 21, 2010 at 17:40 UTC

It's not immediately clear from the docs, but just saying use IO::Handle entitles you to call IO::Handle methods on normal file handles like your already opened $fh. In other words, your snippet could be simplified as follows:

use IO::Handle;
open (my $fh, '<', $FILE) or die $!;

# then simply call method from IO::Handle
$fh->getline();
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This doesn't answer the question how to make a socket out of a regular file, but I thought it's worth mentioning nevertheless...

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