# IO::Lines

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- VERSION
- AUTHORS
  - Principal author
  - Other contributors

## NAME

IO::Lines - IO:: interface for reading/writing an array of lines

## SYNOPSIS

        use IO::Lines;

        # See IO::ScalarArray for details

## DESCRIPTION

This class implements objects which behave just like FileHandle (or IO::Handle) objects, except that you may use them to write to (or read from) an array of lines. They can be tiehandle'd as well.

This is a subclass of IO::ScalarArray in which the underlying array has its data stored in a line-oriented-format: that is, every element ends in a `"\n"`, with the possible exception of the final element. This makes `getline()` much more efficient; if you plan to do line-oriented reading/printing, you want this class.

The `print()` method will enforce this rule, so you can print arbitrary data to the line-array: it will break the data at newlines appropriately.

See IO::ScalarArray for full usage.

## VERSION

$Id: Lines.pm,v 1.110 2000/08/16 04:59:02 eryq Exp $

## AUTHORS

### Principal author

Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com). President, ZeeGee Software Inc (http://www.zeegee.com).

### Other contributors

Thanks to the following individuals for their invaluable contributions (if I've forgotten or misspelled your name, please email me!):

Morris M. Siegel, for his $/ patch and the new `getlines()`.