Mail::Box::FastScalar(3pm)

Mail::Box::FastScalar3pm

Fast alternative to io::scalar

Usage

  my $fh = Mail::Box::FastScalar->new;
  $fh->open(\my $out);
  my $fh = Mail::Box::FastScalar->new(\my $out);

Overview

Extremely fast IO::Scalar replacement - over 20x improvement in getline() and getlines() methods.

Contributed by "Todd Richmond" ("[email protected]")

Warnings

You cannot modify the original reference between calls unless you "$obj-"seek(1, 0)> to reset the object - VERY rare usage case.

$/ must be "undef" or string - "" and \scalar unimplemented

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9
  8. 10
  9. 11
  10. 12
  11. 13
  12. Arch

License

For contributors see file ChangeLog.

This software is copyright (c) 2001-2026 by Mark Overmeer.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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