debian man page for prophet::util

Prophet::Util(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					Prophet::Util(3pm)

   updir PATH
       Strips off the filename in the given path and returns the absolute path of the remaining directory.

   slurp FILENAME
       Reads in the entire file whose absolute path is given by FILENAME and returns its contents, either in a scalar or in an array of lines,
       depending on the context.

   instantiate_record class => 'record-class-name', uuid => 'record-uuid', app_handle => $self->app_handle
       Takes the name of a record class (must subclass Prophet::Record), a uuid, and an application handle and returns a new instantiated record
       object of the given class.

   escape_utf8 REF
       Given a reference to a scalar, escapes special characters (currently just &, <, >, (, ), ", and ') for use in HTML and XML.

       Not an object routine (call as Prophet::Util::escape_utf8( $scalar) ).

perl v5.10.1							    2010-01-02							Prophet::Util(3pm)