Advertise Tie::File.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14922

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index bed3e9a..88b5418 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -872,6 +872,11 @@ where data sharing was implicit.  See L<threads::shared>.
 
 =item *
 
+C<Tie::File>, by Mark-Jason Dominis, allows one to handle a file
+like an array of lines.
+
+=item *
+
 C<Tie::Memoize>, by Ilya Zakharevich, provides on-demand loaded hashes.
 
 =item *

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq5.pod b/pod/perlfaq5.pod
index 80aad94..8c4aa2f 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq5.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq5.pod
@@ -78,9 +78,13 @@ See L<perlfaq9> for other examples of fetching URLs over the web.
 
 =head2 How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
 
-Those are operations of a text editor.  Perl is not a text editor.
-Perl is a programming language.  You have to decompose the problem into
-low-level calls to read, write, open, close, and seek.
+The short answer is to use the Tie::File module, which is included
+in the standard distribution since Perl 5.8.0.
+
+The long answer is that those are operations of a text editor.  Perl
+is not a text editor.  Perl is a programming language.  You have to
+decompose the problem into low-level calls to read, write, open,
+close, and seek.
 
 Although humans have an easy time thinking of a text file as being a
 sequence of lines that operates much like a stack of playing cards--or