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author | Vanilla I. Shu <vanilla@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-01 06:39:18 +0000 |
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committer | Vanilla I. Shu <vanilla@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-01 06:39:18 +0000 |
commit | 68c2f99c6300bc38a37eb3a8292b562cc2d8952b (patch) | |
tree | 0898749bb767b388765958548da12c5b50b3825d /devel/p5-File-Slurp/pkg-descr | |
parent | 031bd55ed2b892d722ffdba72b339be33879e047 (diff) |
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-rw-r--r-- | devel/p5-File-Slurp/pkg-descr | 42 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/devel/p5-File-Slurp/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-File-Slurp/pkg-descr index 789296403703..c84a40630d8d 100644 --- a/devel/p5-File-Slurp/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-File-Slurp/pkg-descr @@ -1,28 +1,28 @@ - These are quickie routines that are meant to save a couple - of lines of code over and over again. They do not do - anything fancy. +These are quickie routines that are meant to save a couple +of lines of code over and over again. They do not do +anything fancy. - read_file() does what you would expect. If you are using - its output in array context, then it returns an array of - lines. If you are calling it from scalar context, then - returns the entire file in a single string. +read_file() does what you would expect. If you are using +its output in array context, then it returns an array of +lines. If you are calling it from scalar context, then +returns the entire file in a single string. - It croaks()s if it can't open the file. +It croaks()s if it can't open the file. - write_file() creates or overwrites files. +write_file() creates or overwrites files. - append_file() appends to a file. +append_file() appends to a file. - overwrite_file() does an in-place update of an existing - file or creates a new file if it didn't already exist. +overwrite_file() does an in-place update of an existing +file or creates a new file if it didn't already exist. - Write_file will also replace a file. The difference is - that the first that that write_file() does is to trucate - the file whereas the last thing that overwrite_file() is - to trucate the file. Overwrite_file() should be used in - situations where you have a file that always needs to have - contents, even in the middle of an update. +Write_file will also replace a file. The difference is +that the first that that write_file() does is to trucate +the file whereas the last thing that overwrite_file() is +to trucate the file. Overwrite_file() should be used in +situations where you have a file that always needs to have +contents, even in the middle of an update. - read_dir() returns all of the entries in a directory - except for "." and "..". It croaks if it cannot open the - directory. +read_dir() returns all of the entries in a directory +except for "." and "..". It croaks if it cannot open the +directory. |