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#NAME

Module::Metadata - Gather package and POD information from perl module files

#DESCRIPTION

#new_from_file($filename, collect_pod => 1)

Construct aModuleInfo object given the path to a file. Takes an optional argumentcollect_pod which is a boolean that determines whether POD data is collected and stored for reference. POD data is not collected by default. POD headings are always collected.

#new_from_module($module, collect_pod => 1, inc => \@dirs)

Construct aModuleInfo object given a module or package name. In addition to accepting thecollect_pod argument as described above, this method accepts ainc argument which is a reference to an array of of directories to search for the module. If none are given, the default is @INC.

#name()

Returns the name of the package represented by this module. If there are more than one packages, it makes a best guess based on the filename. If it's a script (i.e. not a *.pm) the package name is 'main'.

#version($package)

Returns the version as defined by the $VERSION variable for the package as returned by thename method if no arguments are given. If given the name of a package it will attempt to return the version of that package if it is specified in the file.

#filename()

Returns the absolute path to the file.

#packages_inside()

Returns a list of packages.

#pod_inside()

Returns a list of POD sections.

#contains_pod()

Returns true if there is any POD in the file.

#pod($section)

Returns the POD data in the given section.

#find_module_by_name($module, \@dirs)

Returns the path to a module given the module or package name. A list of directories can be passed in as an optional parameter, otherwise @INC is searched.

Can be called as either an object or a class method.

#find_module_dir_by_name($module, \@dirs)

Returns the entry in@dirs (or@INC by default) that contains the module$module. A list of directories can be passed in as an optional parameter, otherwise @INC is searched.

Can be called as either an object or a class method.

#package_versions_from_directory($dir, \@files?)

Scans$dir for .pm files (unless@files is given, in which case looks for those files in$dir - and reads each file for packages and versions, returning a hashref of the form:

{  'Package::Name' => {    version => '0.123',    file => 'Package/Name.pm'  },  'OtherPackage::Name' => ...}

#log_info (internal)

Used internally to perform logging; imported from Log::Contextual if Log::Contextual has already been loaded, otherwise simply calls warn.

#AUTHOR

Ken Williams <kwilliams@cpan.org>, Randy W. Sims <RandyS@ThePierianSpring.org>

Released as Module::Metadata by Matt S Trout (mst) <mst@shadowcat.co.uk> with assistance from David Golden (xdg) <dagolden@cpan.org>

#COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2001-2011 Ken Williams. All rights reserved.

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