NAME
IO::Lines - IO:: interface for reading/writing an array of lines
SYNOPSIS
use IO::Lines;
### See IO::ScalarArray for detailsDESCRIPTION
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 & LICENSE
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.