If it breaks, you get both halves...

[Rob Bloodgood]

> Doesn't this seem like strange behavior?
>
> perl -MSocket -e 'print
> inet_ntoa(gethostbyname("www.eli.net"))'
>
> prints:
>
> Usage:  Socket::inet_ntoa(ip_address_sv) at -e line 1
>
> but....
>
> perl -MSocket -e 'print
> inet_ntoa("".gethostbyname("www.eli.net"))'
>
> does the right thing and prints the IP address in dotted
> decimal notation.

Wow... you actually found a workaround for that!

I had to give up and use IO::Socket (I think, I don't really remember but it
was another incarnation of same).

L8r,
Rob

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Disclaimer qw/:standard/;


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