README
NAME
Raku port of Perl's Net::servent module
SYNOPSIS
use Net::servent;
$s = getservbyname('ftp') || die "no service";
printf "port for %s is %s, aliases are %s\n",
$s.name, $s.port, "@_aliases[]";
use Net::servent qw(:FIELDS);
getservbyname('ftp') || die "no service";
print "port for $s_name is $s_port, aliases are @s_aliases[]\n";
DESCRIPTION
This module tries to mimic the behaviour of Perl's Net::servent
module as closely as possible in the Raku Programming Language.
This module's exports getservbyname
, getservbyportd
, and getservent
functions that return Net::servent
objects. This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the C's servent structure from servdb.h, stripped of their leading "s_" parts, namely name, aliases, port and proto.
You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. Access these fields as variables named with a preceding s_ in front their method names. Thus, s_name if you import the fields.
The getserv
function is a simple front-end that forwards a numeric argument to getservbyport
and the rest to getservbyname
.
PORTING CAVEATS
This module depends on the availability of POSIX semantics. This is generally not available on Windows, so this module will probably not work on Windows.
AUTHOR
Elizabeth Mattijsen [email protected]
Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/serv-servent . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Elizabeth Mattijsen
Re-imagined from Perl as part of the CPAN Butterfly Plan.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.