June 2002
Beginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
Returns information for a network. Overrides the core
getnetbyname and getnetbyaddr functions with object-oriented
versions that return Net::netent objects. The objects have methods
that return the fields of the same name from the
netent structure in
netdb.h:
Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Net address type |
| Array of aliases |
| Name of net |
| Network number |
You can access the structure fields with the methods or by
importing the fields into your namespace with the :FIELDS import tag
and accessing them by prepending n_
to the field name:
$net_obj->name( ) $n_name
Net::netent exports the following.