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Mail::Box::FastScalar(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Box::FastScalar(3)

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 IO::Scalar 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

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Message distribution version 3.015, built on December 11, 2023. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2023 by [Mark Overmeer <markov@cpan.org>]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

2024-03-08 perl v5.40.0