IO::Lines - IO:: interface for reading/writing an array of lines use IO::Lines; ### See IO::ScalarArray for details 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. $Id: Lines.pm,v 2.103 2001/08/09 08:04:44 eryq Exp $

Principal author
Eryq (eryq@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.