Io::all combines all of the best perl io modules into a single spiffy object oriented interface to greatly simplify your everyday perl io idioms. it exports a single function called io, which returns a new io::all object. and that object can do it all!

the io::all object is a proxy for io::file, io::dir, io::socket, io::string, tie::file, file::spec, file::path and file::readbackwards; as well as all the dbm and mldbm modules. you can use most of the methods found in these classes and in io::handle (which they inherit from). io::all adds dozens of other helpful idiomatic methods including file stat and manipulation functions.