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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AUTHOR

34       Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com).  President, ZeeGee Software Inc
35       (http://www.zeegee.com).
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CONTRIBUTORS

38       Dianne Skoll (dfs@roaringpenguin.com).
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41       Copyright (c) 1997 Erik (Eryq) Dorfman, ZeeGee Software, Inc. All
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44       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
45       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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