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

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

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. perl v5.38.2 2024-07-31 IO::Lines(3pm)

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.

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

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

$Id: Lines.pm,v 1.3 2005/02/10 21:21:53 dfs Exp $