Re: in memory files in 5.6.1

[liz]

Maybe IO::stringy is what you're looking for?

I'm not sure what you mean with RAM based dirs, but it should be possible to override mkdir(), chdir() and rmdir(). I don't know of any module that does what you appear to want.

Liz

[pg]

If you are on windows, just do something like:

subst p: \perl\bin

Then your perl bin directory becomes your p: driver. Perl will pick it just as a physical driver.

As for in memory file, unfortunately it is not in 5.6.1. Check perldelta of 5.8.0, under Core Enhancement/Perl IO is now the default.

[mandog]

Thanks Liz

update: Thanks hanenkamp

IO::stringy looks useful, but as far as I can tell an stringy object can't be treated exactly like a file handle.

For example I have to invoke the print method of the object instead of printing to a file handle

[hanenkamp]

Not true, this should work:

use IO::Scalar;
my $fh = IO::Scalar->new;
print $fh "foo\n";  # Rather than $fh->print ...

# or, if you prefer
select $fh;
print "bar\n";

This works through the magic of a tied file handle. See perltie for details on tying a file handle.

[WolliK]

Hi hanenkamp,
please do you have an idea to how handle these kind of "InMemoryfile" to put this on a local drive or to a webserver via HTTP::DAV of (S)FTP ?
The transfer programs allways want to have a filename instead a filehandle.

Regards
WolliK