IO::Lines(3pm)

Usage

    use IO::Lines;
    ### See IO::ScalarArray for details

Overview

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 $

Contributors

Dianne Skoll ([email protected]).

Copyright & license

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Releases

15 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 10 times.