Module::Extract::VERSION(3pm)

Usage

        use Module::Extract::VERSION;
        my $version   # just the version
                = Module::Extract::VERSION->parse_version_safely( $file );
        my @version_info # extra info
                = Module::Extract::VERSION->parse_version_safely( $file );

Overview

This module lets you pull out of module source code the version number for the module. It assumes that there is only one $VERSION in the file and the entire $VERSION statement is on the same line.

Class methods

$class->parse_version_safely( FILE );

Given a module file, return the module version. This works just like "mldistwatch" in PAUSE. It looks for the single line that has the $VERSION statement, extracts it, evals it in a Safe compartment, and returns the result.

In scalar context, it returns just the version as a string. In list context, it returns the list of:

        sigil
        fully-qualified variable name
        version value
        file name
        line number of $VERSION

Source availability

This code is in Github:

        https://github.com/briandfoy/module-extract-version.git

Copyright and license

You may redistribute this under the Artistic License 2.0.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.

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