Perl Programming/Keywords/tied

The tied keyword

tied returns a reference to the object underlying $VARIABLE$.

Syntax

  tied VARIABLE

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Examples

The code

$time = time;

print $time . " s, " . $time/60 . " min, " . $time/3600 . " h\n";
print $time/86400 . " d, " . $time/2629743.84 . " months, " . $time/31556926.08 . " y\n";

returns on Windows something like:

1424097849 s, 23734964.15 min, 395582.735833333 h
16482.6139930556 d, 541.534816942475 months, 45.1279014118729 y

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See also

• tie
• untie