Version 1.0, May 16, 2002.
EWS::fileIO provides object-oriented
input/output to locally mounted disk files.
EWS::fileIO is a class wrapper around the
'class-less' perl file i/o functions. The class supports a single file
which can be automatically
opened with
new when the class is instantiated (created),
or can be opened with the
open method. All
class methods apply to the file handle created with the
open method.
EWS::fileIO provides the following class
methods and attributes:
Class Methods
| Public Methods
| Description
|
|
new
|
Returns a blessed reference to a new fileIO
object.
|
|
close
|
Close the file object.
|
|
eof
|
Return the file object end-of-file state.
|
|
flock
|
Lock file object (only if opened output).
|
|
load
|
Load the contents of the file into an array and return the result.
|
|
open
|
Open file.
|
|
read
|
Return the number of bytes requested from the current file.
|
|
readln
|
Return the next line in the file after removing line-end characters.
|
|
seek
|
Reposition file to specified position.
|
|
stat
|
Return a hash containing the fields returned by the 'stat'
command on the file object.
|
|
tell
|
Return the current seek pointer for the file.
|
|
truncate
|
Truncate the file to the specified length.
|
|
write
|
Write the specified number of bytes to the file.
|
|
writeln
|
Write a buffer to the file followed by a new-line sequence.
|
Class Attributes
| Public Attributes
| Description
|
|
debug
|
Set/get the current debug setting.
|
|
Revision
|
Returns the revision number.
|
|
umask
|
Set/get file creation mode mask.
|
|
Version
|
Returns the version number of cookies.pm.
|
