---
name: "YAML::PP::Common"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-yaml-pp"
version: "0.43.0-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/YAML::PP::Common"
---

# YAML::PP::Common(3pm)

Constants and common functions

## NAME

YAML::PP::Common - Constants and common functions

## SYNOPSIS

```
    use YAML::PP::Common ':STYLES';
    # or
    use YAML::PP::Common qw/
        YAML_ANY_SCALAR_STYLE YAML_PLAIN_SCALAR_STYLE
        YAML_SINGLE_QUOTED_SCALAR_STYLE YAML_DOUBLE_QUOTED_SCALAR_STYLE
        YAML_LITERAL_SCALAR_STYLE YAML_FOLDED_SCALAR_STYLE
        YAML_QUOTED_SCALAR_STYLE
        YAML_ANY_SEQUENCE_STYLE
        YAML_BLOCK_SEQUENCE_STYLE YAML_FLOW_SEQUENCE_STYLE
        YAML_ANY_MAPPING_STYLE
        YAML_BLOCK_MAPPING_STYLE YAML_FLOW_MAPPING_STYLE
    /;
    use YAML::PP::Common ':PRESERVE';
    # or
    use YAML::PP::Common qw/
        PRESERVE_ALL PRESERVE_ORDER PRESERVE_SCALAR_STYLE PRESERVE_FLOW_STYLE
        PRESERVE_ALIAS
    /:
```

## DESCRIPTION

This module provides common constants and functions for modules working with YAML::PP events.

## FUNCTIONS

- event\_to\_test\_suite

  ```
      my $string = YAML::PP::Common::event_to_test_suite($event_prom_parser);
  ```

  For examples of the returned format look into this distributions's directory `"yaml-test-suite"` which is a copy of \<https://github.com/yaml/yaml-test-suite\>.

- test\_suite\_to\_event

  ```
      my $event = YAML::PP::Common::test_suite_to_event($str);
  ```

  Turns an event string in test suite format into an event hashref. Not complete yet.