Hi ff. First of all thanks a lot for the feedback! (It is not easy to read and go deep in such long posts) :-)

In my root post I gave a dummy example of input and output to show the concept of the interface solution. Clearly, there is no need to hack a complex module to parse the example data. (In the same way that you don't need to use Tie::File to simply read data from a file and output it to STDOUT).

But lets try another example a bit more interesting where the tied interface could give a very simple solution: Suppose that I want to get a random record. With the interface solution you can do it even with a simple perl one-liner!:

perl -e 'use Tie::File::GFF; tie my @arr,'Tie::File::GFF',"infile"; pr
+int $arr[int rand ($#arr)];'

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Try to do it "native" and lets compare the number of lines needed!

Thanks again for your feedback!!

Cheers

citromatik

In reply to Re^2: RFC:Hacking Tie::File to read complex data by citromatik
in thread RFC:Hacking Tie::File to read complex data by citromatik

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