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Sys-Info-Base-0.78
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/ Sys::Info::Base

NAME

Sys::Info::Base - Base class for Sys::Info

SYNOPSIS

use base qw(Sys::Info::Base);
#...
sub foo {
    my $self = shift;
    my $data = $self->slurp("/foo/bar.txt");
}

DESCRIPTION

This document describes version 0.78 of Sys::Info::Base released on 17 April 2011.

Includes some common methods.

METHODS

load_module CLASS

Loads the module named with CLASS.

load_subclass TEMPLATE

Loads the specified class via TEMPLATE:

my $class = __PACKAGE__->load_subclass('Sys::Info::Driver::%s::OS');

%s will be replaced with OSID. Apart from the template usage, it is the same as load_module.

trim STRING

Returns the trimmed version of STRING.

slurp FILE

Caches all contents of FILE into a scalar and then returns it.

read_file FILE

Caches all contents of FILE into an array and then returns it.

date2time DATE_STRING

Converts DATE_STRING into unix timestamp.

uname

Returns a hashref built from POSIX::uname.

SEE ALSO

Sys::Info.

AUTHOR

Burak Gursoy <burak@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2006 - 2011 Burak Gursoy. All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.12.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.