Mail::Box::FastScalar - fast alternative to IO::Scalar


NAME

Mail::Box::FastScalar - fast alternative to IO::Scalar


DESCRIPTION

Contributed by ``Todd Richmond'' (richmond@proofpoint.com) This package should be released as separate package, but till then is incorporated in the Mail::Box module.

Extremely fast the IO::Scalar manpage replacement - >20x improvement in getline(s)()

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


REFERENCES

See the MailBox website at http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ for more details.


COPYRIGHTS

Distribution version 2.059. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net) See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

Copyright (c) 2001-2003 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

 Mail::Box::FastScalar - fast alternative to IO::Scalar