NAME

Parse::ExCtags - Parse ExCtags format of TAGS file

SYNOPSIS

use YAML;
use Parse::ExCtags;
my $tags = exctags(-file => 'tags')->tags; # hashref
print YAML::Dump $tags;

DESCRIPTION

This module exports a exctags() function that returns a Parse::ExCtags object. The object has a tags() method that return an hashref of hashref which are tags presented in the file given by -file argument.

The key to $tags is the 'tag name'. Usually a subroutine name or package name. The kind of this 'tag name' is optionally store in $tags->{field}->{kind}.

Each hash has following keys:

name:	the tag name
file:	the associated file
adddress: the ex pattern to search this tag
field: tagfields, a hashref of hashref (name,value) pair.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2004 by Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>.

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

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>