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

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.