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
31 Constants declared via constant have a leading "[constant]" added to
33 the output, but XS "define"'s are not yet so flagged.
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36 $ pmeth IO::Socket
37 AF_INET
38 AF_UNIX
39 INADDR_ANY
40 INADDR_BROADCAST
41 INADDR_LOOPBACK
42 INADDR_NONE
43 SOCK_DGRAM
44 SOCK_RAW
45 SOCK_STREAM
46 accept
47 bind
48 carp
49 confess
50 configure
51 connect
52 connected
53 croak
54 getsockopt
55 import
56 inet_aton
57 inet_ntoa
58 listen
59 new
60 pack_sockaddr_in
61 pack_sockaddr_un
62 peername
63 protocol
64 recv
65 register_domain
66 send
67 setsockopt
68 shutdown
69 sockaddr_in
70 sockaddr_un
71 sockdomain
72 socket
73 socketpair
74 sockname
75 sockopt
76 socktype
77 timeout
78 unpack_sockaddr_in
79 unpack_sockaddr_un
80 DESTROY via IO::Handle
81 SEEK_CUR via IO::Handle
82 SEEK_END via IO::Handle
83 SEEK_SET via IO::Handle
84 _IOFBF via IO::Handle
85 _IOLBF via IO::Handle
86 _IONBF via IO::Handle
87 _open_mode_string via IO::Handle
88 autoflush via IO::Handle
89 blocking via IO::Handle
90 [overridden] carp via IO::Handle
91 clearerr via IO::Handle
92 close via IO::Handle
93 [overridden] confess via IO::Handle
94 constant via IO::Handle
95 [overridden] croak via IO::Handle
96 eof via IO::Handle
97 error via IO::Handle
98 fcntl via IO::Handle
99 fdopen via IO::Handle
100 fileno via IO::Handle
101 flush via IO::Handle
102 format_formfeed via IO::Handle
103 format_line_break_characters via IO::Handle
104 format_lines_left via IO::Handle
105 format_lines_per_page via IO::Handle
106 format_name via IO::Handle
107 format_page_number via IO::Handle
108 format_top_name via IO::Handle
109 format_write via IO::Handle
110 formline via IO::Handle
111 gensym via IO::Handle
112 getc via IO::Handle
113 getline via IO::Handle
114 getlines via IO::Handle
115 gets via IO::Handle
116 input_line_number via IO::Handle
117 input_record_separator via IO::Handle
118 ioctl via IO::Handle
119 [overridden] new via IO::Handle
120 new_from_fd via IO::Handle
121 opened via IO::Handle
122 output_field_separator via IO::Handle
123 output_record_separator via IO::Handle
124 print via IO::Handle
125 printf via IO::Handle
126 printflush via IO::Handle
127 qualify via IO::Handle
128 qualify_to_ref via IO::Handle
129 read via IO::Handle
130 setbuf via IO::Handle
131 setvbuf via IO::Handle
132 stat via IO::Handle
133 sync via IO::Handle
134 sysread via IO::Handle
135 syswrite via IO::Handle
136 truncate via IO::Handle
137 ungensym via IO::Handle
138 ungetc via IO::Handle
139 untaint via IO::Handle
140 write via IO::Handle
141 _push_tags via Exporter via IO::Handle
142 export via Exporter via IO::Handle
143 export_fail via Exporter via IO::Handle
144 export_ok_tags via Exporter via IO::Handle
145 export_tags via Exporter via IO::Handle
146 export_to_level via Exporter via IO::Handle
147 [overridden] import via Exporter via IO::Handle
148 require_version via Exporter via IO::Handle
149 VERSION via UNIVERSAL
150 can via UNIVERSAL
151 [overridden] import via UNIVERSAL
152 isa via UNIVERSAL
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155 Perl makes no distinction between functions, procedures, and methods,
156 nor whether they are public or nominally private, nor whether a method
157 is nominally a class method, an object method, or both. They all show
158 up as subs in the package namespace. So if your class says "use Carp",
159 you just polluted your namespace with things like croak() and
160 confess(), which will appear to be available as method calls on objects
161 of your class.
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164 perltoot(1), perlobj(1)
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167 Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.
168 Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher.
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172 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
173 the terms of either: (a) the GNU General Public License as published by
174 the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
175 later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License". (This is the Perl 5
176 licensing scheme.)
177 Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still
179 available on CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl
180 "Artistic License".
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