NAME

IO::Capture::Stderr - Capture all output sent to STDERR

SYNOPSYS

    use IO::Capture::Stderr;

    $capture = IO::Capture::Stderr->new();

    $capture->start();          # STDERR Output captured
    print STDERR "Test Line One\n";
    print STDERR "Test Line Two\n";
    print STDERR "Test Line Three\n";
    $capture->stop();           # STDERR output sent to wherever it was before 'start'

    # In 'scalar context' returns next line
    $line = $capture->read;
    print "$line";         # prints "Test Line One"

    $line = $capture->read;
    print "$line";         # prints "Test Line Two"

    # move line pointer to line 1
    $capture->line_pointer(1);

    $line = $capture->read;
    print "$line";         # prints "Test Line One"

    # Find out current line number
    $current_line_position = $capture->line_pointer;

    # In 'List Context' return an array(list)
    @all_lines = $capture->read;

DESCRIPTION

The module IO::Capture::Stderr, is derived from the abstract class IO::Capture. See IO::Capture. The purpose of the module (as the name suggests) is to capture any output sent to STDOUT. After the capture is stopped, the STDOUT filehandle will be reset to the previous location. E.g., If previously redirected to a file, when IO::Capture->stop is called, output will start going into that file again.

METHODS

new

• Creates a new capture object.

• An object can be reused as needed, so will only need to do one of these.

  • Be aware, any data previously captured will be discarded if a new capture session is started.

start

• Start capturing data into the IO::Capture Object.

• Can not be called on an object that is already capturing.

• Can not be called while STDERR tied to an object.

• undef will be returned on an error.

stop

• Stop capturing data and point STDERR back to it's previous output location I.e., untie STDERR

read

• In Scalar Context

  • Lines are read from the buffer at the position of the line_pointer, and the pointer is incremented by one.

        $next_line = $capture->read;

• In List Context

  • The array is returned. The line_pointer is not affected.

        @buffer = $capture->read;

• Data lines are returned exactly as they were captured. You may want to use chomp on them if you don't want the end of line character(s)

      while (my $line = $capture->read) {
          chomp $line;
          $cat_line = join '', $cat_line, $line;
      }

line_pointer

• Reads or sets the line_pointer.

      my $current_line = $capture->line_pointer;
      $capture->line_pointer(1);

SUB-CLASSING

Adding Features

If you would like to sub-class this module to add a feature (method) or two, here is a couple of easy steps. Also see IO::Capture::Overview.

1. Give your package a name

       package MyPackage;

2. Use this IO::Capture::Stderr as your base class like this:

       package MyPackage;
   
       use base qw/IO::Capture::Stderr/;

3. Add your new method like this

       package MyPackage;
   
       use base qw/IO::Capture::Stderr/;
   
       sub grep {
           my $self = shift;
   
           for $line (
       }

See Also

IO::Capture::Overview

IO::Capture

IO::Capture::Stdout

IO::Capture::ErrorMessages

AUTHORS

Mark Reynolds reynolds@sgi.com

Jon Morgan jmorgan@sgi.com

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003, Mark Reynolds. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm IO::Capture

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install IO::Capture