package PerlIO::scalar; our $VERSION = '0.01'; use XSLoader (); XSLoader::load 'PerlIO::scalar'; 1; __END__ =head1 NAME PerlIO::scalar - support module for in-memory IO. =head1 SYNOPSIS open($fh,"<",\$scalar); open($fh,">",\$scalar); or open($fh,"<:scalar",\$scalar); open($fh,">:scalar",\$scalar); =head1 DESCRIPTION C only exists to use XSLoader to load C code that provides support for treating a scalar as an "in memory" file. All normal file operations can be performed on the handle. The scalar is considered a stream of bytes. Currently fileno($fh) returns C. =cut