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NAME

6       Text::Sprintf::Named - sprintf-like function with named conversions
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VERSION

9       version 0.0405
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SYNOPSIS

12           use Text::Sprintf::Named;
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14           my $formatter =
15               Text::Sprintf::Named->new(
16                   {fmt => "Hello %(name)s! Today is %(day)s!"}
17               );
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19           # Returns "Hello Ayeleth! Today is Sunday!"
20           $formatter->format({args => {'name' => "Ayeleth", 'day' => "Sunday"}});
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22           # Returns "Hello John! Today is Thursday!"
23           $formatter->format({args => {'name' => "John", 'day' => "Thursday"}});
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25           # Or alternatively using the non-OOP interface:
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27           use Text::Sprintf::Named qw(named_sprintf);
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29           # Prints "Hello Sophie!" (and a newline).
30           print named_sprintf("Hello %(name)s!\n", { name => 'Sophie' });
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32           # Same, but with a flattened parameter list (not inside a hash reference)
33           print named_sprintf("Hello %(name)s!\n", name => 'Sophie');
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DESCRIPTION

36       Text::Sprintf::Named provides a sprintf equivalent with named
37       conversions.  Named conversions are sprintf field specifiers (like "%s"
38       or ""%4d"") only they are associated with the key of an associative
39       array of parameters. So for example "%(name)s" will emit the 'name'
40       parameter as a string, and "%(num)4d" will emit the 'num' parameter as
41       a variable with a width of 4.
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FUNCTIONS

44   my $formatter = Text::Sprintf::Named->new({fmt => $format})
45       Creates a new object which formats according to the $format format.
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47   $formatter->format({args => \%bindings})
48       Returns the formatting string as formatted using the named parameters
49       pointed to by the "args" parameter.
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51   $self->calc_param({%args})
52       This method is used to calculate the parameter for the conversion. It
53       can be over-rided by subclasses so it will behave differently. An
54       example can be found in "t/02-override-param-retrieval.t" where it is
55       used to call the accessors of an object for values.
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57       %args contains:
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59       •   named_params
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61           The named paramters.
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63       •   name
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65           The name of the conversion.
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67   named_sprintf($format, {%parameters})
68   named_sprintf($format, %parameters)
69       This is a convenience function to directly format a string with the
70       named parameters, which can be specified inside a (non-blessed) hash
71       reference or as a flattened hash. See the synopsis for an example.
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AUTHOR

74       Shlomi Fish, "shlomif@cpan.org" , <http://www.shlomifish.org/>
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

77       The (possibly ad-hoc) regex for matching the optional digits+symbols
78       parameters' prefix of the sprintf conversion was originally written by
79       Bart Lateur (BARTL on CPAN) for his String::Sprintf module.
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81       The syntax was borrowed directly from PythonXs "%" operator when used
82       with its dictionaries as the right-hand argument. A quick web search
83       did not yield good documentation about it (and I came with the idea of
84       a named sprintf without knowing that Python had it, only ran into the
85       fact that Python had it by web-searching).
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SIMILAR MODULES

88       Text::sprintfn is a newer module which only provides a procedural
89       interface that allows one to mix positional and named arguments, with
90       some other interesting features.
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92       String::Formatter is a comprehensive module that allows one to define
93       custom sprintf-like functions (IXm not sure whether it has named
94       conversions).  Its license is the GNU General Public Licence version 2
95       (GPLv2), which is both restrictive, and incompatible with version 3 of
96       the GPL and with many other open-source licenses.
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98       String::Sprintf appears to allow one to provide custom sprintf/printf
99       formats (without providing named conversions).
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101       For the lighter side, there is Acme::StringFormat, which provides a "%"
102       operator to format a string.
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105       Copyright 2006 Shlomi Fish, all rights reserved.
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107       This program is released under the following license: MIT/X11:
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109       <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>
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SUPPORT

112   Websites
113       The following websites have more information about this module, and may
114       be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use
115       your favorite search engine to discover more resources.
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117       •   MetaCPAN
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119           A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in
120           HTML format.
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122           <https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Sprintf-Named>
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124       •   RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker
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126           The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue
127           tracking system for CPAN.
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129           <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Text-Sprintf-Named>
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131       •   CPANTS
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133           The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics )
134           of a distribution.
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136           <http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/Text-Sprintf-Named>
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138       •   CPAN Testers
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140           The CPAN Testers is a network of smoke testers who run automated
141           tests on uploaded CPAN distributions.
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143           <http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/T/Text-Sprintf-Named>
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145       •   CPAN Testers Matrix
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147           The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual
148           overview of the test results for a distribution on various
149           Perls/platforms.
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151           <http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Text-Sprintf-Named>
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153       •   CPAN Testers Dependencies
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155           The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of
156           the test results of all dependencies for a distribution.
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158           <http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Text::Sprintf::Named>
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160   Bugs / Feature Requests
161       Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to
162       "bug-text-sprintf-named at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface
163       at
164       <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Text-Sprintf-Named>.
165       You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by
166       the system.
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168   Source Code
169       The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please
170       feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to
171       contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your
172       repository :)
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174       <https://github.com/shlomif/text-sprintf-named>
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176         git clone https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-text-sprintf
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AUTHOR

179       Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>
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BUGS

182       Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
183       <https://github.com/shlomif/text-sprintf-named/issues>
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185       When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch
186       to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
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189       This software is Copyright (c) 2020 by Shlomi Fish.
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191       This is free software, licensed under:
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193         The MIT (X11) License
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