NAME

No::Worries::File - file handling without worries

SYNOPSIS

  use No::Worries::File qw(file_read file_write file_update);

  # read a file
  $data = file_read($path);

  # idem but with data returned by reference
  file_read($path, data => \$data);

  # write a file
  file_write($path, data => "hello world");

  # idem but with data passed by reference
  file_write($path, data => \"hello world");

  # verbosely update a file
  file_update($path, data => "hello world", diff => 1);

DESCRIPTION

This module eases file handling by providing convenient wrappers around standard file functions. All the functions die() on error.

FUNCTIONS

This module provides the following functions (none of them being exported by default):

file_read(PATH[, OPTIONS]): read the file at the given path and return its contents; supported options:

"binary": treat the file as binary
"binmode": binary mode to use
"bufsize": buffer size to use for I/O operations
"data": return the file contents via this scalar reference or code reference
"handle": file handle to use

file_write(PATH[, OPTIONS]): write the given contents to the file at the given path; supported options:

"binary": treat the file as binary
"binmode": binary mode to use
"bufsize": buffer size to use for I/O operations
"data": provide the file contents via this scalar, scalar reference or code reference
"handle": file handle to use

file_update(PATH[, OPTIONS]): check the text file at the given path and update it if needed, printing what has been done on stdout; supported options:

"data": provide the file contents via this scalar
"diff": show differences
"noaction": do not update the file
"silent": do not print any message on stdout

OPTIONS

Both file_read() and file_write() support a "handle" option that can contain a file handle to use. When given, this handle will be used (and closed at the end of the I/O operations) as is, without calling binmode() on it (see below).

These functions also support a "binary" option and a "binmode" option specifying how the file handle should be treated with respect to binmode().

If "binmode" is set, binmode() will be used with the given layer.

If "binmode" is not set but "binary" is true, binmode() will be used without any layer.

If neither "binmode" nor "binary" are set, binmode() will not be used. This is the default.

file_read() can be given a code reference via the "data" option. Each time data is read via sysread(), the subroutine will be called with the read data. At the end of the file, the subroutine will be called with an empty string.

file_write() can be given a code reference via the "data" option. It should return data in a way similar to sysread(), returning an empty string to indicate the end of the data to be written to the file.

file_update() only supports text files (no "binary" or "binmode" options) and the "data" option can only be a scalar.

GLOBAL VARIABLES

This module uses the following global variables (none of them being exported):

$DefaultBufSize: default buffer size to use for I/O operations if not specified via the "bufsize" option (default: 1MB)

AUTHOR

Lionel Cons <http://cern.ch/lionel.cons>