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

NAME

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

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

This module is not included with the standard ActivePerl distribution. It is available as a separate download using PPM.

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 the IO::ScalarArray manpage 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 the IO::ScalarArray manpage for full usage.

VERSION

$Id: Lines.pm,v 1.106 1998/12/16 02:00:04 eryq Exp $

AUTHOR

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

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