IO-Pipe-Producer version 2.01 ============================= Producer.pm Version 2.01 What is it? ----------- Producer.pm is a module that provides methods to fork off a subroutine or system call and return handles on the standard output (STDOUT and STDERR). If you have (for example) a subroutine that processes a very large text file and performs a task on each line, but you need to perform further processing with either other subroutines or in main, normally you would have to wait until the subroutine returns to get its output (either by returning it or opening a temporary file that it produced) and continue processing. If the subroutine prints its output to STDOUT (and STDERR) or you can edit it to do so, you can call it using a producer so that you can use the returned handle to continuously process each line as it's "produced". You can chain subroutines together like this by having your subroutine itself create a Producer. This is similar to using open() to run a system call, except that with this module, you can get a handle on STDERR and use it with subroutines as well. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: IO::Pipe Carp COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This software and ancillary information (herein called "SOFTWARE") called Producer.pm is made available under the terms described here. The SOFTWARE has been approved for release with associated LA-CC number LA-CC-05-060. Unless otherwise indicated, this software has been authored by an employee or employees of the University of California, operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-ENG-36 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this SOFTWARE. The public may copy, distribute, prepare derivative works and publicly display this SOFTWARE without charge, provided that this notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the government nor the university makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this SOFTWARE. If SOFTWARE is modified to produce derivative works, such modified SOFTWARE should be clearly marked, so as not to confuse it with the version available from LANL.