Author: wayland Date: 2009-02-24 05:57:59 +0100 (Tue, 24 Feb 2009) New Revision: 25515
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: Added some things taken from the S28 sources. Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod =================================================================== --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod 2009-02-24 04:56:48 UTC (rev 25514) +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod 2009-02-24 04:57:59 UTC (rev 25515) @@ -190,6 +190,21 @@ Forces this object to keep its buffers empty +If set to nonzero, forces a flush right away and after every write +or print on the currently selected output channel. +Default is 0 (regardless of whether the channel is really buffered +by the system or not; +$OUT_FH.autoflush tells you only whether you've asked Perl +explicitly to flush after each write). +$*OUT will typically be line buffered if output is to the +terminal and block buffered otherwise. +Setting this variable is useful primarily when you are +outputting to a pipe or socket, +such as when you are running a Perl program under rsh +and want to see the output as it's happening. +This has no effect on input buffering. + + =back =head2 IO::Streamable @@ -246,10 +261,32 @@ =over +=item method Int input_record_count() + +Returns a count of the number of records (lines?) that have been input. +Now with cleaned-up localization usage. + =item method Str input_record_separator() is rw This regulates how "readline" behaves. +The input record separator, newline by default. +This influences Perl's idea of what a ``line'' is. +Works like awk's RS variable, including treating empty lines +as a terminator if set to the null string. +(An empty line cannot contain any spaces or tabs.) +You may set it to a multi-character string to match a multi-character +terminator, or to undef to read through the end of file. +Setting it to "\n\n" means something slightly different +than setting to "", if the file contains consecutive empty lines. +Setting to "" will treat two or more consecutive empty lines +as a single empty line. Setting to "\n\n" will blindly assume +that the next input character belongs to the next paragraph, +even if it's a newline. + +Remember: the value of input_record_separator is a string, not a regex. +awk has to be better for something. :-) + =item method Str input_field_separator() is rw This regulates how "readfield" behaves. @@ -291,6 +328,10 @@ =over +=item method Int output_record_count() + +Returns a count of the number of records (lines?) that have been output. + =item method Str output_record_separator() is rw This regulates how say and print(%hash) behaves.
