1IO::Lines(3)          User Contributed Perl Documentation         IO::Lines(3)
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NAME

6       IO::Lines - IO:: interface for reading/writing an array of lines
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SYNOPSIS

9           use IO::Lines;
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11           ### See IO::ScalarArray for details
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DESCRIPTION

14       This class implements objects which behave just like FileHandle (or
15       IO::Handle) objects, except that you may use them to write to (or read
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18       This is a subclass of IO::ScalarArray in which the underlying array has
19       its data stored in a line-oriented-format: that is, every element ends
20       in a "\n", with the possible exception of the final element.  This
21       makes "getline()" much more efficient; if you plan to do line-oriented
22       reading/printing, you want this class.
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24       The "print()" method will enforce this rule, so you can print arbitrary
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28       See IO::ScalarArray for full usage and warnings.
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VERSION

31       $Id: Lines.pm,v 1.3 2005/02/10 21:21:53 dfs Exp $
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AUTHORS

34   Primary Maintainer
35       David F. Skoll (dfs@roaringpenguin.com).
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37   Principal author
38       Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com).  President, ZeeGee Software Inc
39       (http://www.zeegee.com).
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41   Other contributors
42       Thanks to the following individuals for their invaluable contributions
43       (if I've forgotten or misspelled your name, please email me!):
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45       Morris M. Siegel, for his $/ patch and the new "getlines()".
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47       Doug Wilson, for the IO::Handle inheritance and automatic tie-ing.
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51perl v5.12.0                      2005-02-10                      IO::Lines(3)
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