1Parse::CPAN::Meta(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Parse::CPAN::Meta(3pm)
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6 Parse::CPAN::Meta - Parse META.yml and other similar CPAN metadata
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14 rootproperty: blah
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26 use Parse::CPAN::Meta;
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32 my $root = $yaml[0]->{rootproperty};
33 my $one = $yaml[0]->{section}->{one};
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37 Parse::CPAN::Meta is a parser for META.yml files, based on the parser
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40 It supports a basic subset of the full YAML specification, enough to
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44 If you need something with more power, move up to a full YAML parser
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47 Parse::CPAN::Meta provides a very simply API of only two functions,
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59 Parses a string containing a valid YAML stream into a list of Perl data
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68 Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at
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76 YAML, YAML::Syck, Config::Tiny, CSS::Tiny,
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80 Copyright 2006 - 2009 Adam Kennedy.
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82 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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85 The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
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