NAME

XAS::Lib::Mixin::Env - Routines to manipulate the environment variables

SYNOPSIS

use XAS::Class
  version => '0.01',
  base    => 'XAS::Base',
  mixins  => 'XAS::Lib::Mixin::Env',
;

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a set of routines to manipulate the global $ENV variable.

METHODS

env_store

Remove all items from the $ENV variable and store them in a hash variable.

Example: my $env = env_store();

env_restore

Remove all items from $ENV variable and restore it back to a saved hash variable.

Example: env_restore($env);

env_create

Store all the items from a hash variable into the $ENV varable.

Example: env_create($env);

env_parse

Take a formated string and parse it into a hash variable. The string must have this format: "item=value;;item2=value2";

Example: my $string = "item=value;;item2=value2"; my $env = env_parse($string); env_create($env);

env_dump

Take the items from the current $ENV variable and create a formated string.

Example: my $string = env_dump(); my $env = env_create($string);

EXPORTS

env_restore() 
env_create() 
env_parse() 
env_dump()
env_store()

SEE ALSO

XAS

AUTHOR

Kevin L. Esteb, <kevin@kesteb.us>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2013 by Kevin L. Esteb

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.