Hi,

This is the Tie::TextDir module. It is a TIEHASH interface which lets you tie a Perl hash to a directory of textfiles:

use Tie::TextDir;
tie (%hash, 'Tie::TextDir', '/some_directory', 'rw'); # Open in read/write mode

 $hash{'one'} = "some text";         # Creates file /some_directory/one
                                     # with contents "some text"

untie %hash;

tie (%hash, 'Tie::TextDir', '/etc'); # Defaults to read-only mode print $hash{'passwd'}; # Prints contents of /etc/passwd

For more specific information, please see the documentation inside TextDir.pm, by doing "pod2txt TextDir.pm", or "perldoc Tie::TextDir" once you've installed the module.

To install the module, do the usual:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

-Ken Williams