scalar(3)

NAME

       PerlIO::scalar - support module for in-memory IO.

SYNOPSIS

          open($fh,"<",\$scalar);
          open($fh,">",\$scalar);

       or

          open($fh,"<:scalar",\$scalar);
          open($fh,">:scalar",\$scalar);

DESCRIPTION

       "PerlIO::scalar" only exists to use XSLoader to load C code that pro-
       vides support for treating a scalar as an "in memory" file.

       All normal file operations can be performed on the handle. The scalar
       is considered a stream of bytes. Currently fileno($fh) returns "undef".

perl v5.8.0                       2002-06-01                 PerlIO::scalar(3)