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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. They can be tiehandle'd 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 " ", 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 $ AUTHORS
Primary Maintainer David F. Skoll (dfs@roaringpenguin.com). Principal author Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com). President, ZeeGee Software Inc (http://www.zeegee.com). Other contributors Thanks to the following individuals for their invaluable contributions (if I've forgotten or misspelled your name, please email me!): Morris M. Siegel, for his $/ patch and the new "getlines()". Doug Wilson, for the IO::Handle inheritance and automatic tie-ing. perl v5.12.4 2005-02-10 IO::Lines(3pm)
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IO::Lines(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation IO::Lines(3) 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. They can be tiehandle'd 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 " ", 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 $ AUTHORS
Primary Maintainer David F. Skoll (dfs@roaringpenguin.com). Principal author Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com). President, ZeeGee Software Inc (http://www.zeegee.com). Other contributors Thanks to the following individuals for their invaluable contributions (if I've forgotten or misspelled your name, please email me!): Morris M. Siegel, for his $/ patch and the new "getlines()". Doug Wilson, for the IO::Handle inheritance and automatic tie-ing. perl v5.12.5 2005-02-10 IO::Lines(3)