IO - load various IO modules

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- DEPRECATED

# NAME

IO - load various IO modules

# SYNOPSIS

    use IO qw(Handle File); # loads IO modules, here IO::Handle, IO::File
    use IO;                 # DEPRECATED

# DESCRIPTION

`IO` provides a simple mechanism to load several of the IO modules in one go. The IO modules belonging to the core are:

    IO::Handle
    IO::Seekable
    IO::File
    IO::Pipe
    IO::Socket
    IO::Dir
    IO::Select
    IO::Poll

Some other IO modules don't belong to the perl core but can be loaded as well if they have been installed from CPAN. You can discover which ones exist with this query: https://metacpan.org/search?q=IO%3A%3A.

For more information on any of these modules, please see its respective documentation.

# DEPRECATED

    use IO;                # loads all the modules listed below

The loaded modules are IO::Handle, IO::Seekable, IO::File, IO::Pipe, IO::Socket, IO::Dir. You should instead explicitly import the IO modules you want.

IO - load various IO modules