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

6       IO::ScalarArray - IO:: interface for reading/writing an array of
7       scalars
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SYNOPSIS

10       Perform I/O on strings, using the basic OO interface...
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12           use IO::ScalarArray;
13           @data = ("My mes", "sage:\n");
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15           ### Open a handle on an array, and append to it:
16           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray \@data;
17           $AH->print("Hello");
18           $AH->print(", world!\nBye now!\n");
19           print "The array is now: ", @data, "\n";
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21           ### Open a handle on an array, read it line-by-line, then close it:
22           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray \@data;
23           while (defined($_ = $AH->getline)) {
24               print "Got line: $_";
25           }
26           $AH->close;
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28           ### Open a handle on an array, and slurp in all the lines:
29           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray \@data;
30           print "All lines:\n", $AH->getlines;
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32           ### Get the current position (either of two ways):
33           $pos = $AH->getpos;
34           $offset = $AH->tell;
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36           ### Set the current position (either of two ways):
37           $AH->setpos($pos);
38           $AH->seek($offset, 0);
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40           ### Open an anonymous temporary array:
41           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray;
42           $AH->print("Hi there!");
43           print "I printed: ", @{$AH->aref}, "\n";      ### get at value
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45       Don't like OO for your I/O?  No problem.  Thanks to the magic of an
46       invisible tie(), the following now works out of the box, just as it
47       does with IO::Handle:
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49           use IO::ScalarArray;
50           @data = ("My mes", "sage:\n");
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52           ### Open a handle on an array, and append to it:
53           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray \@data;
54           print $AH "Hello";
55           print $AH ", world!\nBye now!\n";
56           print "The array is now: ", @data, "\n";
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58           ### Open a handle on a string, read it line-by-line, then close it:
59           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray \@data;
60           while (<$AH>) {
61               print "Got line: $_";
62           }
63           close $AH;
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65           ### Open a handle on a string, and slurp in all the lines:
66           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray \@data;
67           print "All lines:\n", <$AH>;
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69           ### Get the current position (WARNING: requires 5.6):
70           $offset = tell $AH;
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72           ### Set the current position (WARNING: requires 5.6):
73           seek $AH, $offset, 0;
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75           ### Open an anonymous temporary scalar:
76           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray;
77           print $AH "Hi there!";
78           print "I printed: ", @{$AH->aref}, "\n";      ### get at value
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80       And for you folks with 1.x code out there: the old tie() style still
81       works, though this is unnecessary and deprecated:
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83           use IO::ScalarArray;
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85           ### Writing to a scalar...
86           my @a;
87           tie *OUT, 'IO::ScalarArray', \@a;
88           print OUT "line 1\nline 2\n", "line 3\n";
89           print "Array is now: ", @a, "\n"
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91           ### Reading and writing an anonymous scalar...
92           tie *OUT, 'IO::ScalarArray';
93           print OUT "line 1\nline 2\n", "line 3\n";
94           tied(OUT)->seek(0,0);
95           while (<OUT>) {
96               print "Got line: ", $_;
97           }
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DESCRIPTION

100       This class is part of the IO::Stringy distribution; see IO::Stringy for
101       change log and general information.
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103       The IO::ScalarArray class implements objects which behave just like
104       IO::Handle (or FileHandle) objects, except that you may use them to
105       write to (or read from) arrays of scalars.  Logically, an array of
106       scalars defines an in-core "file" whose contents are the concatenation
107       of the scalars in the array.  The handles created by this class are
108       automatically "tiehandle"d (though please see "WARNINGS" for
109       information relevant to your Perl version).
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111       For writing large amounts of data with individual print() statements,
112       this class is likely to be more efficient than IO::Scalar.
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114       Basically, this:
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116           my @a;
117           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray \@a;
118           $AH->print("Hel", "lo, ");         ### OO style
119           $AH->print("world!\n");            ### ditto
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121       Or this:
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123           my @a;
124           $AH = new IO::ScalarArray \@a;
125           print $AH "Hel", "lo, ";           ### non-OO style
126           print $AH "world!\n";              ### ditto
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128       Causes @a to be set to the following array of 3 strings:
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130           ( "Hel" ,
131             "lo, " ,
132             "world!\n" )
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134       See IO::Scalar and compare with this class.
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PUBLIC INTERFACE

137   Construction
138       new [ARGS...]
139           Class method.  Return a new, unattached array handle.  If any
140           arguments are given, they're sent to open().
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142       open [ARRAYREF]
143           Instance method.  Open the array handle on a new array, pointed to
144           by ARRAYREF.  If no ARRAYREF is given, a "private" array is created
145           to hold the file data.
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147           Returns the self object on success, undefined on error.
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149       opened
150           Instance method.  Is the array handle opened on something?
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152       close
153           Instance method.  Disassociate the array handle from its underlying
154           array.  Done automatically on destroy.
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156   Input and output
157       flush
158           Instance method.  No-op, provided for OO compatibility.
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160       fileno
161           Instance method.  No-op, returns undef
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163       getc
164           Instance method.  Return the next character, or undef if none
165           remain.  This does a read(1), which is somewhat costly.
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167       getline
168           Instance method.  Return the next line, or undef on end of data.
169           Can safely be called in an array context.  Currently, lines are
170           delimited by "\n".
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172       getlines
173           Instance method.  Get all remaining lines.  It will croak() if
174           accidentally called in a scalar context.
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176       print ARGS...
177           Instance method.  Print ARGS to the underlying array.
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179           Currently, this always causes a "seek to the end of the array" and
180           generates a new array entry.  This may change in the future.
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182       read BUF, NBYTES, [OFFSET];
183           Instance method.  Read some bytes from the array.  Returns the
184           number of bytes actually read, 0 on end-of-file, undef on error.
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186       write BUF, NBYTES, [OFFSET];
187           Instance method.  Write some bytes into the array.
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189   Seeking/telling and other attributes
190       autoflush
191           Instance method.  No-op, provided for OO compatibility.
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193       binmode
194           Instance method.  No-op, provided for OO compatibility.
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196       clearerr
197           Instance method.  Clear the error and EOF flags.  A no-op.
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199       eof Instance method.  Are we at end of file?
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201       seek POS,WHENCE
202           Instance method.  Seek to a given position in the stream.  Only a
203           WHENCE of 0 (SEEK_SET) is supported.
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205       tell
206           Instance method.  Return the current position in the stream, as a
207           numeric offset.
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209       setpos POS
210           Instance method.  Seek to a given position in the array, using the
211           opaque getpos() value.  Don't expect this to be a number.
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213       getpos
214           Instance method.  Return the current position in the array, as an
215           opaque value.  Don't expect this to be a number.
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217       aref
218           Instance method.  Return a reference to the underlying array.
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AUTHOR

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

225       Dianne Skoll (dfs@roaringpenguin.com).
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228       Copyright (c) 1997 Erik (Eryq) Dorfman, ZeeGee Software, Inc. All
229       rights reserved.
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231       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
232       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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