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lib:IO

See the current Perl documentation for lib:IO.

Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:

IO - load various IO modules

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    use IO;

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IO provides a simple mechanism to load some of the IO modules at one go. Currently this includes:

      IO::Handle
      IO::Seekable
      IO::File
      IO::Pipe
      IO::Socket

For more information on any of these modules, please see its respective documentation.

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