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in thread How to make an IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 look like a GLOB

I believe your reply contains suggestions for modifying the "if" inside the Perl Module. My question was actually how to modify the object I am passing the module such that it would pass the existing "if" inside the module, so that I do not have to modify the third party module.
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Re^3: How to make an IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 look like a GLOB
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 18, 2009 at 06:43 UTC
    The 3rd party module has a giant bug, it needs to be fixed. But 
    {
   local @GLOB::ISA = ref $obj;
   bless $obj, 'GLOB';
   broken_module($obj);
   bless $obj, @GLOB::ISA;
}

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      Thank you. That does indeed get me past the initial "if". Unfortunately the restore part of your code does not appear to work. With that code I get:

      Can't locate object method "READ" via package "1"

      If I change your last line to

      bless $obj, 'IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2';

      then it works correctly. Thank you for your help.

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        Foiled by prototypes again 
        bless $obj, shift @GLOB::ISA;

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