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



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.  They can be
       tiehandle'd 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 $

AUTHORS
   Primary Maintainer
       David F. Skoll (dfs AT roaringpenguin.com).

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

   Other contributors
       Thanks to the following individuals for their invaluable contributions (if I've forgotten
       or misspelled your name, please email me!):

       Morris M. Siegel, for his $/ patch and the new "getlines()".

       Doug Wilson, for the IO::Handle inheritance and automatic tie-ing.



perl v5.12.4                                2005-02-10                             IO::Lines(3pm)