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Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition
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Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

by Johan Vromans
July 2002
Beginner to intermediate
96 pages
1h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Information About Networks

In list context, each of these routines returns a list of values. Use the standard module Net::netent for by-name access:

Index

Name

Description

0

name

Network name

1

aliases

Alias names

2

addrtype

Address type

3

net

Network address

endnetent

Ends lookup processing.

getnetbyaddr addr, type

Gets information by address and type. In scalar context, returns the network name.

getnetbyname name

Gets information by network name. In scalar context, returns the network number.

getnetent

Gets next network information. In scalar context, returns the network name.

setnetent stayopen

Resets lookup processing.

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