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/ Log::Report::Util

NAME

Log::Report::Util - helpful routines to Log::Report

INHERITANCE

Log::Report::Util
  is a Exporter

DESCRIPTION

This module collects a few functions and definitions which are shared between different components in the Log::Report infrastructure.

FUNCTIONS

escape_chars(STRING)

    Replace all escape characters into their readable counterpart. For instance, a new-line is replaced by backslash-n.

expand_reasons(REASONS)

    Returns a sub-set of all existing message reason labels, based on the content REASONS string. The following rules apply: REASONS = BLOCK [ ',' BLOCKS] BLOCK = '-' TO | FROM '-' TO | ONE | SOURCE FROM,TO,ONE = 'TRACE' | 'ASSERT' | ,,, | 'PANIC' SOURCE = 'USER' | 'PROGRAM' | 'SYSTEM' | 'ALL'

    The SOURCE specification group all reasons which are usually related to the problem: report about problems caused by the user, reported by the program, or with system interaction.

    example: of expended REASONS

    WARNING-FAULT # == WARNING,MISTAKE,ERROR,FAULT
-INFO         # == TRACE-INFO
ALERT-        # == ALERT,FAILURE,PANIC
USER          # == MISTAKE,ERROR
ALL           # == TRACE-PANIC

parse_locale(STRING)

    Returns a LIST of four elements when successful, and an empty LIST when the locale is not correct. The LIST order is country, territory, character-set (codeset), and modifier.

unescape_chars(STRING)

    Replace all backslash-something escapes by their escape character. For instance, backslash-t is replaced by a tab character.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Log-Report distribution version 0.14, built on November 02, 2007. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/log-report/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2007 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html