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PL2PM(1)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide						  PL2PM(1)

NAME

       pl2pm - Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules.

SYNOPSIS

       pl2pm files

DESCRIPTION

       pl2pm is a tool to aid in the conversion of Perl4-style .pl library files to Perl5-style library modules.  Usually, your old .pl file will
       still work fine and you should only use this tool if you plan to update your library to use some of the newer Perl 5 features, such as
       AutoLoading.

LIMITATIONS

       It's just a first step, but it's usually a good first step.

AUTHOR

       Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>

perl v5.14.2							    2014-09-30								  PL2PM(1)

Perl::PrereqScanner::Scanner::Perl5(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		  Perl::PrereqScanner::Scanner::Perl5(3pm)

NAME

       Perl::PrereqScanner::Scanner::Perl5 - scan for core Perl 5 language indicators of required modules

VERSION

       version 1.012

DESCRIPTION

       This scanner will look for the following indicators:

       o   plain lines beginning with "use" or "require" in your perl modules and scripts, including minimum perl version

       o   regular inheritance declared with the "base" and "parent" pragmata

       Since Perl does not allow you to supply a version requirement with a "require" statement, the scanner will check the statement after the
       "require Module" to see if it is "Module->VERSION( minimum_version );".

       In order to provide a minimum version, that method call must meet the following requirements:

       o   it must be the very next statement after "require Module".  Nothing can separate them but whitespace and comments (and one semicolon).

       o   "Module" must be a bareword, and match the "require" exactly.

       o   "minimum_version" must be a literal number, v-string, or single-quoted string.  Double quotes are not allowed.

AUTHORS

       o   Jerome Quelin

       o   Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Jerome Quelin.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-27				  Perl::PrereqScanner::Scanner::Perl5(3pm)