redhat man page for perlio::scalar

PerlIO::scalar(3pm)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				       PerlIO::scalar(3pm)

NAME
       PerlIO::scalar - support module for in-memory IO.

SYNOPSIS
	  open($fh,"<",$scalar);
	  open($fh,">",$scalar);

       or

	  open($fh,"<:scalar",$scalar);
	  open($fh,">:scalar",$scalar);

DESCRIPTION
       "PerlIO::scalar" only exists to use XSLoader to load C code that provides support for treating a scalar as an "in memory" file.

       All normal file operations can be performed on the handle. The scalar is considered a stream of bytes. Currently fileno($fh) returns
       "undef".

perl v5.8.0							    2002-06-01						       PerlIO::scalar(3pm)