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Term::UI::History

NAME

Term::UI::History - history function

SYNOPSIS

  1.     use Term::UI::History qw[history];
  3.     history("Some message");
  5.     ### retrieve the history in printable form
  6.     $hist  = Term::UI::History->history_as_string;
  8.     ### redirect output
  9.     local $Term::UI::History::HISTORY_FH = \*STDERR;

DESCRIPTION

This module provides the history function for Term::UI , printing and saving all the UI interaction.

Refer to the Term::UI manpage for details on usage from Term::UI .

This module subclasses Log::Message::Simple . Refer to its manpage for additional functionality available via this package.

FUNCTIONS

history("message string" [,VERBOSE])

Records a message on the stack, and prints it to STDOUT (or actually $HISTORY_FH , see the GLOBAL VARIABLES section below), if the VERBOSE option is true.

The VERBOSE option defaults to true.

GLOBAL VARIABLES

  • $HISTORY_FH

    This is the filehandle all the messages sent to history() are being printed. This defaults to *STDOUT .

See Also

Log::Message::Simple , Term::UI

AUTHOR

This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

This module is copyright (c) 2005 Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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