1Mail::Box::Tie(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation    Mail::Box::Tie(3)
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NAME

6       Mail::Box::Tie - access an existing message-folder as an array or hash
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SYNOPSIS

9       As an array:
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11        use Mail::Box::Tie;
12        tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY => $folder;
13        tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder;    # deprecated
14        print $inbox[3];
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16       or as hash:
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18        tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::HASH => $folder;
19        tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder;    # deprecated
20        print $inbox{'<12379.124879@example.com>'};
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DESCRIPTION

23       The use of "Mail::Box::Tie" is deprecated, because it is succeeded by
24       two separate modules: Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY and Mail::Box::Tie::HASH.
25       However, this module still works.
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27       Folders certainly look like an array of messages, so why not just
28       access them as one?  Or, the order is not important, but the message-
29       ids are (give relations): why not access them from a hash based on this
30       message-id?  Programs using one of these ties will look simpler than
31       programs using the more traditional method calls.
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SEE ALSO
35       This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 3.010, built on
36       July 18, 2023. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/
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LICENSE
39       Copyrights 2001-2023 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see
40       ChangeLog.
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42       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
43       under the same terms as Perl itself.  See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
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47perl v5.38.0                      2023-07-24                 Mail::Box::Tie(3)



        

    


            
        

        

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