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Manual Reference Pages  - PerlIO::scalar (3pm)

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PerlIO::scalar - in-memory IO, scalar IO

CONTENTS

   my $scalar = ’’;
   ...
   open my $fh, "<",  \$scalar or die;
   open my $fh, ">",  \$scalar or die;
   open my $fh, ">>", \$scalar or die;

or

   my $scalar = ’’;
   ...
   open my $fh, "<:scalar",  \$scalar or die;
   open my $fh, ">:scalar",  \$scalar or die;
   open my $fh, ">>:scalar", \$scalar or die;

A filehandle is opened but the file operations are performed in-memory on a scalar variable. All the normal file operations can be performed on the handle. The scalar is considered a stream of bytes. Currently fileno($fh) returns undef.

PerlIO::scalar only exists to use XSLoader to load C code that provides support for treating a scalar as an in memory file. One does not need to explicitly use PerlIO::scalar.

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