File::Store VERSION 1.0 - cache file contents in memory. DESCRIPTION File::Store - read and cache file contents in memory. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Anthony Fletcher. All rights reserved. These modules are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the same terms as Perl itself. This code is supplied as-is - use at your own risk. PREREQUISITES Perl5 Exporter HOW TO BUILD AND INSTALL perl Makefile.PL make make test make install TODO Nothing planned. SUGGESTIONS Send suggestions, bugs, etc. to arif+perl@bifb.org. EXAMPLE use File::Store; my $contents1 = File::Store::get('/etc/passwd'); my $contents2 = File::Store::get('/etc/passwd'); The second call retrieves the file contents for the file store instead of reading it from disc, unless the file has been modified.