Geo::G...I::File(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Geo::GDAL::FFI::VSI::File — a GDAL virtual file, bestie. That's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

(okay so fun fact: this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation and the header up top calls it Geo::G...I::File(3pm) because apparently even manpage titles fear the ellipsis slay 💅)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

(no cap, there's literally nothing here 🙈 the original page just... leaves it blank. Go read METHODS, that's where the good stuff is 🫶)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

(also vibes-only, zero words. The name already told you: it's a GDAL virtual file. Iconic minimalism tbh 💀)

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

💜 Open

my $vsifile = Geo::GDAL::FFI::VSI::File->Open($name, $access);

Okay so this one opens a virtual file, periodt 🔥

• $name is the name of the file you wanna open 🌸
• $access is 'r', 'r+', 'a', or 'w'. And 'r' is the default if you don't say anything 👑

It hands you back a Geo::GDAL::FFI::VSI::File object. That's your main character 🫶

🦋 Close

Closes the file handle. The pretty part? It's done automatically when the object is destroyed, so you don't even have to think about it. Self-care file handling fr fr 😭💖

⭐ Read($len)

Reads $len bytes from the file. Returns those bytes in a Perl string ✨

$len is optional and by default it's 1. (yes, one. one single byte. she's shy 🍓)

🌈 Write($buf)

Writes the Perl string $buf into the file. Returns the number of successfully written bytes 👑

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🧚 LICENSE 🧚

This software is released under the Artistic License. See perlartistic for the receipts 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ari Jolma — Ari.Jolma at gmail.com 💌

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

• Geo::GDAL::FFI
• Alien::gdal, FFI::Platypus, <http://www.gdal.org>

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and that's the whole page bestie, no crumbs left 🌸✨

this doc is page Geo::G...I::File(3pm) from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-21. lowkey iconic of it to arrive with a timestamp. bye bye, go open some virtual files 🫶🎀