NAME

File::ReadSimple - Perl extension for making filehandling very easy for not-so good Perl Programmers.

SYNOPSIS

  use File::ReadSimple;
  
  file_read ("1.txt" or "ls -la |");
  file_read_line("1.txt or "ls -la |","2");
  file_bulk_read_line("1.txt" or "ls -la |","2","5");
  file_read_last_lines("1.txt" or "ls -la |","2");
  file_read_first_lines("1.txt" or "ls -la |","2");
  file_read_odd_lines("1.txt" or "ls -la |");
  file_read_even_lines("1.txt" or "ls -la |");
  file_grep_word ("1.txt" or "ls -la |");
  file_word_replace("1.txt" or "ls -la","abc","xyz");
  file_grep_word_line_no("1.txt" or "ls -la");
  file_tail("1.txt");
  

DESCRIPTION

This module wraps many of the routine Filehandling/Command output handling tasks performed by Perl users/programmers. The reason for the development of the module is to help people use filehandling more efficiently and easily. Following is the way these functions can be used.

Function Name:file_read Description: To read a file or command output

Function:file_read_line Description: To read a specific line from the a file or command ouput

Function:file_bulk_read_line Description: To read range of lines from a file or command output

Function:file_read_last_lines Description:to read range of lines from the end of the file or command output

Function:file_read_first_lines Description:To read range of lines from the start of the file or command output

Function:file_read_odd_lines Description:To read odd lines from file or command output

Function:file_read_even_lines Description:To read even no lined from a file or command output

Function:file_grep_word Description:To find a lines containing the word from a file or command output

Function:file_word_replace Description:To find a word and replace with another word in a file or command output

Function:file_grep_word_line_no Description:To display the lines with nos where the word given if found from the file or command output

Function:file_tail Description:To continuously follow file output or command output i.e tail -f in UNIX.

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Nitin Harale, <nitin.harale@yahoo.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Super-User

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.