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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 3.004, built on December 21, 2017.

Do not forget to read Mail::Box-Overview, Mail::Box-Cookbook, and Mail::Box-Index. Examples are included in the Mail-Box distribution, directories 'examples' and 'scripts'.

Browseable manuals, papers, and other released material van be found at Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

The central modules (in separate distributions) in the MailBox suite are: Mail::Message, Mail::Box, Mail::Box::IMAP4, Mail::Box::POP3, Mail::Box::Parser::C, Mail::Box::Dbx (unpublished), Mail::Transport, Object::Realize::Later, and User::Identity.

Please post questions or ideas to the author markov@cpan.org.

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2017 by [Mark Overmeer]. 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/