debian man page for parse::debian::packages

Parse::Debian::Packages(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Parse::Debian::Packages(3pm)

NAME
       Parse::Debian::Packages - parse the data from a debian Packages.gz

SYNOPSIS
	use YAML;
	use IO::File;
	use Parse::Debian::Packages;
	my $fh = IO::File->new("Packages");

	my $parser = Parse::Debian::Packages->new( $fh );
	while (my %package = $parser->next) {
	    print Dump \%package;
	}

DESCRIPTION
       This module parses the Packages files used by the debian package management tools.

       It presents itself as an iterator.  Each call of the ->next method will return the next package found in the file.

       For laziness, we take a filehandle in to the constructor.  Please open the file for us.

METHODS
   new( $filehandle )
   next
       Iterate to the next package in the file, returns either a hash containing a package description, or false at end of file.

   as_hash( $filehandle )
       Return all the packages from a filehandle as a hash of hashes.

AUTHOR
       Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> with as_hash implementation by Thomas Klausner.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2003,2005,2012 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

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

SEE ALSO
       Module::Packaged

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-11					      Parse::Debian::Packages(3pm)