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authorvanilla <vanilla@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-15 07:18:15 +0800
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Simplified Perl5 module to handle I/O on in-core strings
PR: ports/25766 Submitted by: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>
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+IO::String is an IO::File (and IO::Handle) compatible class that reads data
+from or writes data to in-core strings. It is essentially a simplification
+of parts of the IO-stringy collection of modules. As such, IO::String is a
+replacement for IO::Scalar.
+
+Author: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+
+-- Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>