info > CPAN::Meta::YAML

📖 NAME

CPAN::Meta::YAML - Read and write a subset of YAML for CPAN Meta files

🚀 Quick Reference

Use CaseCommandDescription
Read META.yml from fileopen $fh, "<:utf8", "META.yml"; $yaml_text = do { local $/; <$fh> }; $yaml = CPAN::Meta::YAML->read_string($yaml_text)Load and parse a YAML file into an object
Write META.yml to file$yaml_text = $yaml->write_string; open $fh, ">:utf8", "META.yml"; print $fh $yaml_textSerialize object back to YAML and write file
Read YAML string$yaml = CPAN::Meta::YAML->read_string($yaml_text)Parse a YAML string directly (any source)

đŸˇī¸ VERSION

version 0.018

🔧 SYNOPSIS

           use CPAN::Meta::YAML;

           # reading a META file
           open $fh, "<:utf8", "META.yml";
           $yaml_text = do { local $/; <$fh> };
           $yaml = CPAN::Meta::YAML->read_string($yaml_text)
             or die CPAN::Meta::YAML->errstr;

           # finding the metadata
           $meta = $yaml->[0];

           # writing a META file
           $yaml_text = $yaml->write_string
             or die CPAN::Meta::YAML->errstr;
           open $fh, ">:utf8", "META.yml";
           print $fh $yaml_text;

📝 DESCRIPTION

This module implements a subset of the YAML specification for use in reading and writing CPAN metadata files like META.yml and MYMETA.yml. It should not be used for any other general YAML parsing or generation task.

NOTE: META.yml (and MYMETA.yml) files should be UTF-8 encoded. Users are responsible for proper encoding and decoding. In particular, the read and write methods do not support UTF-8 and should not be used.

🆘 SUPPORT

This module is currently derived from YAML::Tiny by Adam Kennedy. If there are bugs in how it parses a particular META.yml file, please file a bug report in the YAML::Tiny bugtracker: https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/YAML-Tiny/issues

🔗 SEE ALSO

đŸ‘Ĩ AUTHORS

ÂŠī¸ COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Adam Kennedy.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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