NAME

Meta::Utils::Options - utilities to let you manipulate option files.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Options.pm PROJECT: meta

SYNOPSIS

package foo; use Meta::Utils::Options qw(); my($opti)=Meta::Utils::Options-new();> $opti-read("my_configuration_file");> $obje=$opti-get("my_variable");>

DESCRIPTION

This library lets you read and write configuration files.

EXPORTS

new($) read($$) getd($$$) getenv($$)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

new($)

Gives you a new options object.

read($$)

This lets you read a file in options format.

getd($$$)

This will get a value but will return a default value if no value exists.

getenv($$)

This is a new get routine which is overridable by the envrionment. Mind you, that a default value must be available in the options file.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Mark Veltzer <mark2776@yahoo.com>

HISTORY

start of revision info 1 Mon Jan 1 16:38:12 2001 MV initial code brought in 2 Tue Jan 2 06:08:54 2001 MV bring databases on line 2 Wed Jan 3 07:02:01 2001 MV handle architectures better 3 Sat Jan 6 11:39:39 2001 MV make quality checks on perl code 4 Sat Jan 6 17:14:09 2001 MV more perl checks 5 Sun Jan 7 18:17:29 2001 MV make Meta::Utils::Opts object oriented 6 Tue Jan 9 18:15:19 2001 MV check that all uses have qw 6 Tue Jan 9 19:29:31 2001 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation 7 Wed Jan 10 12:05:55 2001 MV more on tests/more checks to perl 8 Fri Jan 12 13:36:01 2001 MV make options a lot better 9 Sun Jan 28 02:34:56 2001 MV perl code quality 10 Sun Jan 28 13:51:26 2001 MV more perl quality 11 Tue Jan 30 03:03:17 2001 MV more perl quality 12 Sat Feb 3 23:41:08 2001 MV perl documentation 13 Mon Feb 5 03:21:02 2001 MV more perl quality 14 Tue Feb 6 01:04:52 2001 MV perl qulity code 15 Tue Feb 6 07:02:13 2001 MV more perl code quality 16 Tue Feb 6 22:19:51 2001 MV revision change end of revision info

SEE ALSO

Nothing.

TODO

Nothing.