Hi--
My CPAN ID is BTROTT. I'd like to contribute the following module to CPAN:
Name DSLI Description Info
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IO::Buffer bdp0 Read/write string buffering class. BTROTT
IO::Buffer is used within Net::SSH::Perl to manage string buffers in packets
sent between client and server. It has general purpose applicability, so I
thought it might be useful to others.
Below you'll find some of the POD.
bye,
Benjamin Trott
=head1 NAME
IO::Buffer - Read/write buffer class
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use IO::Buffer;
my $buffer = IO::Buffer->new;
## Add a 32-bit integer.
$buffer->put_int32(10932930);
## Get it back.
my $int = $buffer->get_int32;
=head1 DESCRIPTION
I<IO::Buffer> implements a low-level binary buffer in which
you can get and put integers, strings, and other data.
Internally the implementation is based on C<pack> and C<unpack>,
such that I<IO::Buffer> is really a layer on top of those
built-in functions.
All of the I<get_*> and I<put_*> methods respect the
internal offset state in the buffer object. This means
that, for example, if you call I<get_int16> twice in a
row, you can be ensured that you'll get the next two
16-bit integers in the buffer. You don't need to worry
about the number of bytes a certain piece of data takes
up, for example.
