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Chris

2007-08-28, 7:01 pm

I want to install IO::Scalar. However, I can't find it with the
Active Perl's Perl Package Manager. Do this module still exist?

Chas Owens

2007-08-28, 7:01 pm

On 8/28/07, Chris <cspears2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I want to install IO::Scalar. However, I can't find it with the
> Active Perl's Perl Package Manager. Do this module still exist?


They probably no longer package it because Perl no longer needs it:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $not_a_file = "this is\nnot\nreally a file";

open my $fh, "<", \$not_a_file
or die "could not open \$not_a_file:$!";

while (<$fh> ) {
chomp;
print "[$_]\n";
}
Chas Owens

2007-08-28, 7:01 pm

On 8/28/07, Chas Owens <chas.owens@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Chris <cspears2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> They probably no longer package it because Perl no longer needs it:

snip

Actually they do still provide it. It is part of the IO::Stringy
package. You should be able to say

ppm install io-stringy

to get it, but I wouldn't bother unless you have legacy code that uses it.
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