NAME

Iterator::IO - Filesystem and stream iterators.

VERSION

This documentation describes version 0.02 of Iterator::IO.pm, August 23, 2005.

SYNOPSIS

 use Iterator::IO;
 # Return the names of files in a directory (except . and ..)
 $iter = idir_listing ($path);
 # Return all the files in a directory tree, one at a time.
 # Like File::Find, in slow motion.
 $iter = idir_walk ($path);
 # Return the lines of a file, one at a time.
 $iter = ifile ($filename, \%options);
 # Return the lines of a file, in reverse order
 $iter = ifile_reverse ($filename, \%options);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides filesystem and stream iterator functions. See the Iterator module for more information about how to use iterators.

FUNCTIONS

idir_listing

 $iter = idir_listing ($path);
    

Iterator that returns the names of the files in the $path directory. If $path is omitted, defaults to the current directory. Does not return the "." and ".." files (under unix).

Requires IO::Dir and Cwd.

Example:

To return only certain files, combine this with an igrep:

 $iter = igrep {-s && -M < 1} idir "/some/path";
    

(Returns non-empty files modified less than a day ago). (igrep) is defined in the Iterator::Util module).

idir_walk

 $iter = idir_walk ($path);
    

Returns the files in a directory tree, one by one. It's sort of like File::Find in slow motion.

Requires IO::Dir and Cwd.

ifile

 $iter = ifile ($filename, \%options);
    

Opens a file, generates an iterator to return the lines of the file.

"\%options" is a reference to a hash of options. Currently, two options are supported:

ifile_reverse

 $iter = ifile_reverse ($filename, \%options);
    

Exactly the same as "ifile", but reads the lines of the file backwards.

The "input_record_separator" option values "undef" (slurp whole file) and scalar references (fixed-length records) are not currently supported.

INTERFACE CHANGE

In version 0.01 of Iterator::IO, the "ifile" and ifile_reverse functions accepted their options in a different manner. This has now changed to operate via a hash reference of options. The old way will still work, but is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

EXPORTS

This module exports all function names to the caller's namespace by default.

DIAGNOSTICS

Iterator::IO uses Exception::Class objects for throwing exceptions. If you're not familiar with Exception::Class, don't worry; these exception objects work just like $@ does with "die" and "croak", but they are easier to work with if you are trapping errors.

See the Iterator module documentation for more information on how to trap and handle these exception objects.

• Parameter Errors

  Class: "Iterator::X::Parameter_Error"

  You called an Iterator::IO function with one or more bad parameters. Since this is almost certainly a coding error, there is probably not much use in handling this sort of exception.

  As a string, this exception provides a human-readable message about what the problem was.

• Exhausted Iterators

  Class: "Iterator::X::Exhausted"

  You called "value" on an iterator that is exhausted; that is, there are no more values in the sequence to return.

  As a string, this exception is "Iterator is exhausted."

• I/O Errors

  Class: "Iterator::X::IO_Error"

  This exception is thrown when any sort of I/O error occurs; this only happens with the filesystem iterators.

  This exception has one method, "os_error", which returns the original $! that was trapped by the Iterator object.

  As a string, this exception provides some human-readable information along with $!.

• Internal Errors

  Class: "Iterator::X::Internal_Error"

  Something happened that I thought couldn't possibly happen. I would appreciate it if you could send me an email message detailing the circumstances of the error.

REQUIREMENTS

Requires the following additional modules:

Iterator

IO::Dir and Cwd are required if you use "idir_listing" or "idir_walk".

IO::File is required if you use "ifile" or "ifile_reverse"

SEE ALSO

Higher Order Perl, Mark Jason Dominus, Morgan Kauffman 2005.

<http://perl.plover.com/hop/>

THANKS

Much thanks to Will Coleda and Paul Lalli (and the RPI lily crowd in general) for suggestions for the pre-release version.

AUTHOR / COPYRIGHT

Eric J. Roode, roode@cpan.org

Copyright (c) 2005 by Eric J. Roode. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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