txt: ## dist_zef-lizmat-Net-netent.md
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  # NAME
  
  Raku port of Perl's Net::netent module
  
  # SYNOPSIS
  
  ```
  use Net::netent;
  
  my $n = getnetbyname("loopback")       or die "bad net";
  printf "%s is %08X\n", $n.name, $n.net;
  
  use Net::netent qw(:FIELDS);
  getnetbyname("loopback")               or die "bad net";
  printf "%s is %08X\n", $n_name, $n_net;
  
  ```
  
  # DESCRIPTION
  
  This module tries to mimic the behaviour of Perl's `Net::netent` module as closely as possible in the Raku Programming Language.
  
  This module's exports `getnetbyname`, `getnetbyaddrd`, and `getnetent` functions that return `Netr::netent` objects. This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the C's netent structure from netdb.h, stripped of their leading "n\_" parts, namely name, aliases, addrtype and net.
  
  You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. Access these fields as variables named with a preceding n\_ in front their method names. Thus, $net\_obj.name corresponds to $n\_name if you import the fields.
  
  The `getnet` function is a simple front-end that forwards a numeric argument to `getnetbyaddr` and the rest to `getnetbyname`.
  
  # PORTING CAVEATS
  
  This module depends on the availability of POSIX semantics. This is generally not available on Windows, so this module will probably not work on Windows.
  
  # AUTHOR
  
  Elizabeth Mattijsen [liz@raku.rocks](mailto:liz@raku.rocks)
  
  Source can be located at: <https://github.com/lizmat/Net-netent> . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
  
  # COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
  
  Copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Elizabeth Mattijsen
  
  Re-imagined from Perl as part of the CPAN Butterfly Plan.
  
  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.
  