1PMETH(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation PMETH(1)
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6 pmeth - show a Perl class's methods
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9 Given a class name, print out all methods available to that class. It
10 does this by loading in the class module, and walking its symbol table
11 and those of its ancestor classes. A regular method call shows up
12 simply:
13 $ pmeth IO::Socket | grep '^con'
15 confess
16 configure
17 connect
18 connected
19 But one that came from else where is noted with one or more "via"
21 notations:
22 DESTROY via IO::Handle
24 export via Exporter via IO::Handle
25 A base-class method that is unavailable due to being hidden by a close
27 derived-class method by the same name (but accessible via SUPER::) is
28 indicated by a leading "[overridden]" before it:
29 [overridden] new via IO::Handle
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33 $ pmeth IO::Socket
34 AF_INET
35 AF_UNIX
36 INADDR_ANY
37 INADDR_BROADCAST
38 INADDR_LOOPBACK
39 INADDR_NONE
40 SOCK_DGRAM
41 SOCK_RAW
42 SOCK_STREAM
43 accept
44 bind
45 carp
46 confess
47 configure
48 connect
49 connected
50 croak
51 getsockopt
52 import
53 inet_aton
54 inet_ntoa
55 listen
56 new
57 pack_sockaddr_in
58 pack_sockaddr_un
59 peername
60 protocol
61 recv
62 register_domain
63 send
64 setsockopt
65 shutdown
66 sockaddr_in
67 sockaddr_un
68 sockdomain
69 socket
70 socketpair
71 sockname
72 sockopt
73 socktype
74 timeout
75 unpack_sockaddr_in
76 unpack_sockaddr_un
77 DESTROY via IO::Handle
78 SEEK_CUR via IO::Handle
79 SEEK_END via IO::Handle
80 SEEK_SET via IO::Handle
81 _IOFBF via IO::Handle
82 _IOLBF via IO::Handle
83 _IONBF via IO::Handle
84 _open_mode_string via IO::Handle
85 autoflush via IO::Handle
86 blocking via IO::Handle
87 [overridden] carp via IO::Handle
88 clearerr via IO::Handle
89 close via IO::Handle
90 [overridden] confess via IO::Handle
91 constant via IO::Handle
92 [overridden] croak via IO::Handle
93 eof via IO::Handle
94 error via IO::Handle
95 fcntl via IO::Handle
96 fdopen via IO::Handle
97 fileno via IO::Handle
98 flush via IO::Handle
99 format_formfeed via IO::Handle
100 format_line_break_characters via IO::Handle
101 format_lines_left via IO::Handle
102 format_lines_per_page via IO::Handle
103 format_name via IO::Handle
104 format_page_number via IO::Handle
105 format_top_name via IO::Handle
106 format_write via IO::Handle
107 formline via IO::Handle
108 gensym via IO::Handle
109 getc via IO::Handle
110 getline via IO::Handle
111 getlines via IO::Handle
112 gets via IO::Handle
113 input_line_number via IO::Handle
114 input_record_separator via IO::Handle
115 ioctl via IO::Handle
116 [overridden] new via IO::Handle
117 new_from_fd via IO::Handle
118 opened via IO::Handle
119 output_field_separator via IO::Handle
120 output_record_separator via IO::Handle
121 print via IO::Handle
122 printf via IO::Handle
123 printflush via IO::Handle
124 qualify via IO::Handle
125 qualify_to_ref via IO::Handle
126 read via IO::Handle
127 setbuf via IO::Handle
128 setvbuf via IO::Handle
129 stat via IO::Handle
130 sync via IO::Handle
131 sysread via IO::Handle
132 syswrite via IO::Handle
133 truncate via IO::Handle
134 ungensym via IO::Handle
135 ungetc via IO::Handle
136 untaint via IO::Handle
137 write via IO::Handle
138 _push_tags via Exporter via IO::Handle
139 export via Exporter via IO::Handle
140 export_fail via Exporter via IO::Handle
141 export_ok_tags via Exporter via IO::Handle
142 export_tags via Exporter via IO::Handle
143 export_to_level via Exporter via IO::Handle
144 [overridden] import via Exporter via IO::Handle
145 require_version via Exporter via IO::Handle
146 VERSION via UNIVERSAL
147 can via UNIVERSAL
148 [overridden] import via UNIVERSAL
149 isa via UNIVERSAL
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152 Perl makes no distinction between functions, procedures, and methods,
153 nor whether they are public or nominally private, nor whether a method
154 is nominally a class method, an object method, or both. They all show
155 up as subs in the package namespace. So if your class says "use Carp",
156 you just polluted your namespace with things like croak() and
157 confess(), which will appear to be available as method calls on objects
158 of your class.
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161 perltoot(1), perlobj(1)
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164 Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.
165 Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Mark Leighton Fisher.
167 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
169 the terms of either: (a) the GNU General Public License as published by
170 the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
171 later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License". (This is the Perl 5
172 licensing scheme.)
173 Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still
175 available on CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl
176 "Artistic License".
177perl v5.12.0 2010-05-04 PMETH(1)