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Cool, there's a way to treat a string like a filehandle (but only in Perl 5.8).

01:21 (utc-4)

Alternatively, for other versions of Perl, use IO::Scalar.

∴ Sam Kington | 23-Aug-2003 6:50am est | http://www.illuminated.co.uk/blog/ | #2777

Keith (http://www.keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Man, I need to be better acquainted with Perl's standard library and CPAN. Thanks.

∴ Keith | 23-Aug-2003 10:37am est | http://www.keithdevens.com/ | #2780

If you ever try the same thing in PHP, you might be interested in stream_wrapper_register

∴ Harry Fuecks | 23-Aug-2003 6:48pm est | http://www.phppatterns.com | #2782

Keith (http://www.keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Man, that's awesome. I had no clue that existed either.

∴ Keith | 23-Aug-2003 8:40pm est | http://www.keithdevens.com/ | #2783

In Python, use the StringIO module (or cStringIO if available):

from StringIO import StringIO
stream = StringIO('foo')
print stream.read() # or whatever

∴ Mark | 23-Aug-2003 11:30pm est | http://diveintomark.org/ | #2784

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