Zoidberg::Utils(3)    User Contributed Perl Documentation   Zoidberg::Utils(3)



NAME
       Zoidberg::Utils - An interface to zoid's utility libs

SYNOPSIS
       TODO

DESCRIPTION
       This module bundles common routines used by the Zoidberg object
       classes, especially the error and output routines.

       It is intended as a bundle or cluster of several packages so it is
       easier to keep track of all utility methods.

EXPORT
       By default the ':error' and ':output' tags are exported.

       The following export tags are defined:

       :error
           Gives you "error", "bug", "todo", "complain"; the first 3 belong to
           Zoidberg::Utils::Error, the last to Zoidberg::Utils::Output.

       :output
           Gives you "output", "message" and  "debug", all of which belong to
           Zoidberg::Utils::Output.

       :fs Gives you "path" and "list_dir", which belong to
           Zoidberg::Utils::FileSystem.

       Also methods listen below can be requested for import.

METHODS
       "read_data_file($basename)"
           Searches in zoid's data dirs for a file with basename $basename and
           returns a hash reference with it's contents.

           This method should be used by all plugins etc. to ensure
           portability.

           FIXME more explanation

       "read_file($file)"
           Returns a hash reference with the contents of $file.  Currently
           only perl scripts are read and these should return (or end with) a
           hash reference. Possibly other formats like yaml will be added
           later.

AUTHOR
       Jaap Karssenberg || Pardus [Larus] <pardus@cpan.org>

       Copyright (c) 2003 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved.  This
       program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The import function was adapted from Exporter::Tidy by Juerd Waalboer
       <juerd@cpan.org>, it was modified to add the clustering feature.

SEE ALSO
       Zoidberg, Zoidberg::Utils::Error, Zoidberg::Utils::Output,
       Zoidberg::Utils::FileSystem, Zoidberg::Utils::GetOpt



perl v5.12.2                      2011-08-23                Zoidberg::Utils(3)
