IO::Lines(3)          User Contributed Perl Documentation         IO::Lines(3)


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 & 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.

perl v5.30.2                      2020-05-18                      IO::Lines(3)