Tie::H...pHeader(3pm)

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version 0.004 Β· 7 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ Tie::Handle::SkipHeader β€” bestie edition ✨

okay so this is a Perl module from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's literally one of those tiny little gems that does exactly one thing and does it flawlessly. πŸ’…


πŸ’– NAME πŸ’–

Tie::Handle::SkipHeader β€” a tied handle that hides an RFC822-style header. πŸŽ€

Like, you tie a filehandle, and it just… skips the header for you. The way that it hides the header is so iconic. πŸ¦‹


🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 0.004 ✨


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

Bestie, here's the whole vibe:

use Tie::Handle::SkipHeader;

tie *FH, 'Tie::Handle::SkipHeader', "<", $filename;

That's it. That's the whole thing. Slay. πŸ’š


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

So Tie::Handle::SkipHeader is a subclass of Tie::Handle::Offset β€” yes, it's giving "I inherited good genes" energy πŸ‘‘

What it does: it automatically hides an email-style message header. πŸ“§πŸ™ˆ

Here's the tea, fr fr: after opening the file, it reads up to a blank or white-space-only line, and then it sets the offset to the next byte. So like, the header just ✨vanishes✨ and you're reading the actual content like nothing ever happened. No cap. 🫢


πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> πŸ’œ


This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by David Golden.

This is free software, licensed under:

The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004 πŸ“œβœ¨


And that's the whole page, bestie! 🌸 This was generated for perl v5.36.0 and dated 2022-11-20, and honestly? A lil retro, a lil timeless, main character energy all the way. πŸ’– Mwah. πŸ’…πŸŽ€