Perl endhostent Function



Description

This function tells the system you no longer expect to read entries from the hosts file using gethostent.

Syntax

Following is the simple syntax for this function −

endhostent

Return Value

This function does not return any value.

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";
}

sethostent(1);

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";
}

endhostent();  # Closes the database;

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  = 
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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