Mail::B...stScalar(3)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet Mail::Box::FastScalar — it's the fast alternative to IO::Scalar 💅 like, the whole point is speed.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

look at this, it's giving so simple:

my $fh = Mail::Box::FastScalar->new;
$fh->open(\my $out);

my $fh = Mail::Box::FastScalar->new(\my $out);

that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

it's an extremely fast IO::Scalar replacement, no cap — we're talking over 20x improvement in the getline() and getlines() methods. twenty. times. faster. the glow-up is real 🔥

contributed by "Todd Richmond" (richmond@proofpoint.com) — thank u king 🫶

💀 Warnings 💀

okay so these two things, you gotta know them or you're gonna have a bad time:

• you cannot modify the original reference between calls unless you "$obj-"seek(1, 0)> to reset the object — this is a VERY rare usage case, so like, don't stress, but also don't do it 🫠
• $/ must be "undef" or a string — "" and \scalar are unimplemented 🙈

⚠️ fr fr, those are not suggestions. respect the caveats or the vibes will not be immaculate.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

this module is part of Mail-Message version 4.04, built on February 04, 2026. website, if you wanna go lurk: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/ 🌈

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👑 LICENSE 👑

for contributors, go peek at the file ChangeLog 💖

this software is copyright (c) 2001-2026 by Mark Overmeer. icon behavior, honestly.

it's free software — you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. periodt. 💅

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k bye bestie, go be fast ✨

perl v5.42.0 · 2026-02-05 · Mail::B...stScalar(3) 🎀