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IO::Lines


Top NAME

IO::Lines - IO:: interface for reading/writing an array of lines


Top SYNOPSIS

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


Top 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 "\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.


Top VERSION

$Id: Lines.pm,v 1.110 2000/08/16 04:59:02 eryq Exp $


Top AUTHORS


Top Principal author

Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com). President, ZeeGee Software Inc (http://www.zeegee.com).


Top 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().


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