Mail::Box::Tie(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Box::Tie(3)NAMEMail::Box::Tie - access an existing message-folder as an array or hash
SYNOPSIS
As an array:
use Mail::Box::Tie;
tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY => $folder;
tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder; # deprecated
print $inbox[3];
or as hash:
tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::HASH => $folder;
tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder; # deprecated
print $inbox{'<12379.124879@example.com>'};
DESCRIPTION
The use of "Mail::Box::Tie" is deprecated, because it is succeeded by
two separate modules: Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY and Mail::Box::Tie::HASH.
However, this module still works.
Folders certainly look like an array of messages, so why not just
access them as one? Or, the order is not important, but the message-
ids are (give relations): why not access them from a hash based on this
message-id? Programs using one of these ties will look simpler than
programs using the more traditional method calls.
SEE ALSO
This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.097, built on
January 26, 2011. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/
LICENSE
Copyrights 2001-2011 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see
ChangeLog.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself. See
http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
perl v5.14.1 2011-01-26 Mail::Box::Tie(3)