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Perl gethostent Function
Description
This function iterates over the entries in the host file. It returns the following in a list context − ($name, $aliases, $addrtype, $length, @addrs)
Syntax
Following is the simple syntax for this function −
gethostent
Return Value
This function returns undef on error and otherwise host name in scalr context and empty list on error otherwise host record(name, aliases, address type, length, list of addresses) in list context.
Example
Following is the example code showing its basic usage −
#!/usr/bin/perl while( ($name, $aliases, $addrtype, $length, @addrs) = gethostent() ) { print "Name = $name\n"; print "Aliases = $aliases\n"; print "Addr Type = $addrtype\n"; print "Length = $length\n"; print "Addrs = @addrs\n"; }
When above code is executed, it produces the following result −
Name = ip-50-62-147-141.ip.secureserver.net Aliases = ip-50-62-147-141 localhost.secureserver.net localhost.localdomain localhost Addr Type = 2 Length = 4 Addrs =
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