NAME

Tie::FileSection - restrict files sequential access using array like boundaries

VERSION

version 0.171950

SYNOPSIS

use Tie::FileSection;
my $filename = 'some/text/file.txt';
#Lines are indexed starting from 1
my $Header = Tie::FileSection->new( 
      filename => $filename, 
      first_line => 1, 
      last_line => 1
   );
say "Header========";
say <$Header>;
my $Content = Tie::FileSection->new( 
      filename => $filename, 
      first_line =>2, 
      last_line => -2
   );
say "Content=======";
say <$Content>;
my $Footer = Tie::FileSection->new( 
      filename => $filename, 
      first_line => -1
   );
say "Footer========";
say <$Footer>;

DESCRIPTION

`Tie::FileSection` represent a regular text file specified by the file name, with boundaries 
to restrict to a specific section of the file. It is possible to use negative boundaries that
will be relative to the end of the file. It is designed to works for sequential read accesses.

NAME

Tie::FileSection - restrict files sequential access using array like boundaries

METHOD

new - Create a file section and return it as a file handle.

my $fh = Tie::FileSection->new ( filename => $path, first_line => $i, last_line => $end );
my $fh = Tie::FileSection->new ( file => $FH,       first_line => $i, last_line => $end );

filename argument is the file path to read from.
file argument is the file handle to read from.
optional first_line argument is the first line index in the file where the section start, omit this argument to mean from start of the file.
optional last_line argument is the last line index in the file where the section end, omit this argument to mean until EOF.
optional use_real_line_nr argument when specified with a true value, will make $. to return the original line number, default to relative to the section.

A negative indexes is relative to the end of the file.

WARRANTY

`Tie::FileSection`comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, see the license.

TODO

Add more tests
Support random and write accesses

AUTHOR

Nicolas Georges <xlat@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Nicolas Georges.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.