perl-IO-All

IO::All combines all of the best Perl IO modules into a single nifty object
oriented interface to greatly simplify your everyday Perl IO idioms. It
exports a single function called 'io', which returns a new IO::All object.
And that object can do it all!
The IO::All object is a proxy for IO::File, IO::Dir, IO::Socket, Tie::File,
File::Spec, File::Path, File::MimeInfo and File::ReadBackwards; as well as
all the DBM and MLDBM modules. You can use most of the methods found in
these classes and in IO::Handle (which they inherit from). IO::All adds
dozens of other helpful idiomatic methods including file stat and
manipulation functions.
IO::All is pluggable, and modules like IO::All::LWP and IO::All::Mailto add
even more functionality. Optionally, every IO::All object can be tied to
itself. This means that you can use most perl IO builtins on it: readline,
'<>', getc, print, printf, syswrite, sysread, close.
The distinguishing magic of IO::All is that it will automatically open (and
close) files, directories, sockets and other IO things for you. You never
need to specify the mode ('<', '>>', etc), since it is determined by the
usage context. That means you can replace this:
open STUFF, '&lt;', './mystuff'
  or die "Can't open './mystuff' for input:\n$!";
local $/;
my $stuff = &lt;STUFF&gt;;
close STUFF;


with this:
my $stuff &lt; io './mystuff';


And that is a good thing!

          

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License: Artistic-1.0 or GPL-1.0+
URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-All/