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Module-ExtractUse-0.20
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NAME

Module::ExtractUse - Find out what modules are used

SYNOPSIS

use Module::ExtractUse;

# get a parser
my $p=Module::ExtractUse->new;

# parse from a file
$p->extract_use('/path/to/module.pm');

# or parse from a ref to a string in memory
$p->extract_use(\$string_containg_code);

# use some reporting methods
my $used=$p->used;           # $used is a HASHREF
print $p->used('strict')     # true if code includes 'use strict'

my @used=$p->array;
my $used=$p->string;

DESCRIPTION

Module::ExtractUse is basically a Parse::RecDescent grammar to parse Perl code. It tries very hard to find all modules (whether pragmas, Core, or from CPAN) used by the parsed code.

"Usage" is defined by either calling use or require.

Methods

new

my $p=Module::ExtractUse->new;

Returns a parser object

extract_use

$p->extract_use('/path/to/module.pm');
$p->extract_use(\$string_containg_code);

Runs the parser.

$code_to_parse can be either a SCALAR, in which case Module::ExtractUse tries to open the file specified in $code_to_parse. Or a reference to a SCALAR, in which case Module::ExtractUse assumes the referenced scalar contains the source code.

The code will be stripped from POD (using Pod::Strip) and splitted on ";" (semicolon). Each statement (i.e. the stuff between two semicolons) is checked by a simple regular expression.

If the statement contains either 'use' or 'require', the statment is handed over to the parser, who then tries to figure out, what is used or required. The results will be saved in a data structure that you can examine afterwards.

You can call extract_use several times on different files. It will count how many files where examined and how often each module was used.

Accessor Methods

Those are various ways to get at the result of the parse.

Note that extract_use returns the parser object, so you can say

print $p->extract_use($code_to_parse)->string;

used

my $used=$p->used;           # $used is a HASHREF
print $p->used('strict')     # true if code includes 'use strict'

If called without an argument, returns a reference to an hash of all used modules. Keys are the names of the modules, values are the number of times they were used.

If called with an argument, looks up the value of the argument in the hash and returns the number of times it was found during parsing.

This is the prefered accessor.

string

print $p->string($seperator)

Returns a sorted string of all used modules, joined using the value of $seperator or using a blank space as a default;

Module names are sorted by ascii value (i.e by sort)

array

my @array = $p->array;

Returns an array of all used modules.

arrayref

my $arrayref = $p->arrayref;

Returns a reference to an array of all used modules. Surprise!

files

Returns the number of files parsed by the parser object.

RE-COMPILING THE GRAMMAR

If - for some reasons - you need to alter the grammar, edit the file grammar and afterwards run:

perl -MParse::RecDescent - grammar Module::ExtractUse::Grammar

Make sure you're in the right directory, i.e. in .../Module/ExtractUse/

EXPORTS

Nothing.

SEE ALSO

Parse::RecDescent, Module::ScanDeps, Module::Info, Module::CPANTS::Analyse

AUTHOR

Thomas Klausner <domm@zsi.at>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-module-extractuse@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

COPYRIGHT

Module::ExtractUse is Copyright (c) 2003-2007, Thomas Klausner.

You may use and distribute this module according to the same terms that Perl is distributed under.