IO::Lines(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation IO::Lines(3pm)
NAME
IO::Lines - IO:: interface for reading/writing an array of lines
SYNOPSIS
use IO::Lines;
### See IO::ScalarArray for details
DESCRIPTION
This class implements objects which behave just like FileHandle (or
IO::Handle) objects, except that you may use them to write to (or read
from) an array of lines. "tiehandle" capable as well.
This is a subclass of IO::ScalarArray in which the underlying array has
its data stored in a line-oriented-format: that is, every element ends
in a "\n", with the possible exception of the final element. This makes
getline() much more efficient; if you plan to do line-oriented
reading/printing, you want this class.
The print() method will enforce this rule, so you can print arbitrary
data to the line-array: it will break the data at newlines
appropriately.
See IO::ScalarArray for full usage and warnings.
VERSION
$Id: Lines.pm,v 1.3 2005/02/10 21:21:53 dfs Exp $
AUTHOR
Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com). President, ZeeGee Software Inc
(http://www.zeegee.com).
CONTRIBUTORS
Dianne Skoll (dfs@roaringpenguin.com).
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright (c) 1997 Erik (Eryq) Dorfman, ZeeGee Software, Inc. All rights
reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
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