NAME IO::Tee - Multiplex output to multiple output handles SYNOPSIS use IO::Tee; $tee = IO::Tee->new($handle1, $handle2); print $tee "foo", "bar"; DESCRIPTION The `IO::Tee' constructor, given a list of output handles, returns a tied handle that can be written to but not read from. When written to (using print or printf), it multiplexes the output to the list of handles originally passed to the constructor. As a shortcut, you can also directly pass a string or an array reference to the constructor, in which case `IO::File::new' is called for you with the specified argument or arguments. The `IO::Tee' class supports certain `IO::Handle' and `IO::File' methods related to output. In particular, the following methods will iterate themselves over all handles associated with the `IO::Tee' object, and return TRUE indicating success if and only if all associated handles returned TRUE indicating success: close truncate write syswrite format_write formline fcntl ioctl flush clearerr seek Additionally, the following methods can be used to set (but not retrieve) the current values of output-related state variables on all associated handles: autoflush output_field_separator output_record_separator format_page_number format_lines_per_page format_lines_left format_name format_top_name format_line_break_characters format_formfeed EXAMPLE use IO::Tee; use IO::File; my $tee = new IO::Tee(\*STDOUT, new IO::File(">tt1.out"), ">tt2.out"); print join(' ', $tee->handles), "\n"; for (1..10) { print $tee $_, "\n" } for (1..10) { $tee->print($_, "\n") } $tee->flush; AUTHOR Chung-chieh Shan, ken@digitas.harvard.edu COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Chung-chieh Shan. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO the perlfunc manpage, the IO::Handle manpage, the IO::File manpage.