NAME

IO::File::String - load/save whole file as single string

DESCRIPTION

Simple interface to enable load/save the whole file as single scalar string.

It is subclass of IO::File so that all methods are inherited (including the 'new' method).

SYNOPSIS

my $sfh = IO::File::String->new( '< my-file.txt' );
$sfh->load( my $str )->close;
...
my $str =  'test string';
my $sfh = IO::File::String->new( '> my-file.txt' );
$sfh->save( $str )->close;

METHODS

load

$fh->load( my $string );

Load the whole file into $string.

save

$fh->save( $string );

Save the whole $string into file.

FILES

none

REVISION

project started: 2004/01/09

$Id: String.pm_rev 1.3 2004/01/09 18:31:44 root Exp root $

AUTHOR

Daniel Peder, Daniel.Peder@Infoset.COM

http://www.Infoset.COM

SEE ALSO

IO::File IO::Handle IO::Seekable

NOTE

'Out of memory' could occur on large files because the whole file is allways tried to put in memory without size checking.