oracular (3) IO::Lines.3pm.gz

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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 (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.