Data::Handle This Package serves as a very *very* simple interface to a packages __DATA__ section. Its primary purposes is to make successive accesses viable without needing to scan the file manually for the __DATA__ marker. It does this mostly by recording the current position of the file handle on the first call to "->new", and then re-using that position on every successive "->new" call, which eliminates a bit of the logic for you. At present, it only does a simple heuristic ( backtracking ) to verify the current position is immediately at the start of a __DATA__ section, but we may improve on this one day. INSTALLATION This is a Perl module distribution. It should be installed with whichever tool you use to manage your installation of Perl, e.g. any of cpanm . cpan . cpanp -i . Consult http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html for further instruction. Should you wish to install this module manually, the procedure is perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.