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.IX Title "IO::Stringy 3"
.TH IO::Stringy 3 2024-07-13 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
IO\-stringy \- I/O on in\-core objects like strings and arrays
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\&    use strict;
\&    use warnings;
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\&    use IO::AtomicFile; # Write a file which is updated atomically
\&    use IO::InnerFile; # define a file inside another file
\&    use IO::Lines; # I/O handle to read/write to array of lines
\&    use IO::Scalar; # I/O handle to read/write to a string
\&    use IO::ScalarArray; # I/O handle to read/write to array of scalars
\&    use IO::Wrap; # Wrap old\-style FHs in standard OO interface
\&    use IO::WrapTie; # Tie your handles & retain full OO interface
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\&    # ...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This toolkit primarily provides modules for performing both traditional
and object-oriented i/o) on things \fIother\fR than normal filehandles;
in particular, IO::Scalar, IO::ScalarArray,
and IO::Lines.
.PP
In the more-traditional IO::Handle front, we
have IO::AtomicFile
which may be used to painlessly create files which are updated
atomically.
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And in the "this-may-prove-useful" corner, we have IO::Wrap,
whose exported \fBwraphandle()\fR function will clothe anything that's not
a blessed object in an IO::Handle\-like wrapper... so you can just
use OO syntax and stop worrying about whether your function's caller
handed you a string, a globref, or a FileHandle.
.SH AUTHOR
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Eryq (\fIeryq@zeegee.com\fR).
President, ZeeGee Software Inc (\fIhttp://www.zeegee.com\fR).
.SH CONTRIBUTORS
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Dianne Skoll (\fIdfs@roaringpenguin.com\fR).
.SH "COPYRIGHT & LICENSE"
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Copyright (c) 1997 Erik (Eryq) Dorfman, ZeeGee Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
.PP
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.