June 2002
Beginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
A helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in Perl. PerlIO::Via ships with the Perl 5.8 source kit.
For example, you can use PerlIO::Via to call MIME::Base64::encode_base64() via open():
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w; use MIME::Base64; open(my $fh, ">Via(MIME::Base64)", "encode_base64");
PerlIO::Via implements the following methods.