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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Explanation of the sort command Post 302758757 by jimbojames on Sunday 20th of January 2013 06:56:38 PM
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Parse::ErrorString::Perl(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Parse::ErrorString::Perl(3pm)

NAME
Parse::ErrorString::Perl - Parse error messages from the perl interpreter VERSION
version 0.15 SYNOPSIS
use Parse::ErrorString::Perl; my $parser = Parse::ErrorString::Perl->new; # or: my $parser = Parse::ErrorString::Perl->new(lang => 'FR') # to get localized explanations my @errors = $parser->parse_string($string_containing_stderr_output); foreach my $error(@errors) { print 'Captured error message "' . $error->message . '" in file ' . $error->file . ' on line ' . $error->line . " "; } METHODS
new(lang => $lang) Constructor. Receives an optional "lang" parameter, specifying that error explanations need to be delivered in a language different from the default (i.e. English). Will try to load "POD2::$lang::perldiag". parse_string($string) Receives an error string generated from the perl interpreter and attempts to parse it into a list of "Parse::ErrorString::Perl::ErrorItem" objects providing information for each error. SEE ALSO
splain ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Part of this module is based on code from splain. BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-parse-errorstring-perl at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Parse-ErrorString-Perl>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Parse::ErrorString::Perl o RT: CPAN's request tracker <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Parse-ErrorString-Perl> o AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation <http://annocpan.org/dist/Parse-ErrorString-Perl> o CPAN Ratings <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Parse-ErrorString-Perl> o Search CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-ErrorString-Perl/> AUTHORS
o Petar Shangov, "<pshangov at yahoo.com>" o Gabor Szabo <http://szabgab.com/> o Ahmad M. Zawawi <ahmad.zawawi@gmail.com> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Petar Shangov. 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 v5.10.1 2010-11-29 Parse::ErrorString::Perl(3pm)
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