Clownfish::Blob(3pm)

✨ Clownfish::Blob ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to Clownfish::Blob — a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and honestly? it's giving "immutable buffer holding arbitrary bytes" and nothing less. it's short, it's sweet, it's iconic. let's go 💅

NAME

Clownfish::Blob — Immutable buffer holding arbitrary bytes. 🫶

like, you hand it bytes, it holds them, it will never change its mind. no cap.

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SYNOPSIS

my $blob = Clownfish::Blob->new($byte_string);
my $byte_string = $blob->to_perl;

see how clean that is?? make a Blob, get your bytes back. the whole vibe in two lines fr fr 🌸

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DESCRIPTION

ngl the original page just... does not write any prose here 🙈 it goes straight into the good stuff. no filler, all substance, main character energy. keep scrolling, bestie 👑

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CONSTRUCTORS

new

my $blob = Clownfish::Blob->new($byte_string);

Create a Blob containing the passed-in bytes. that's it, that's the whole job. you give it $byte_string, it wraps it up like a little gift 🎀✨

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METHODS

get_size

my $int = $blob->get_size();

Return the number of bytes held by the Blob. literally just a headcount of your bytes 🧮💖

compare_to

my $int = $blob->compare_to($other);

Indicate whether one Blob is less than, equal to, or greater than another. The byte contents of the Blobs are compared lexicographically. Throws an exception if other is not a Blob. 🚨

bestie, if you pass something that is not a Blob, it will throw. don't do that. 🫠

Returns:

• 0 if the Blobs are equal 🟰
• a negative number if self is less than other 📉
• a positive number if self is greater than other 📈

clone

my $result = $blob->clone();

Return a clone of the object. a whole twin, no drama, no shared trauma 💜

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INHERITANCE

Clownfish::Blob isa Clownfish::Obj. so it's got the family tree going on, iykyk 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! slay 💅✨

this cutie came out of perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-09-02, and it's page Clownfish::Blob(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation set. mwah, bye 🦋💖