Debian...::Utils(3pm)

📦 version 3.00, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

✨ NAME ✨

Debian::L10n::Utils — Utilities for the dl10n tools 💅

Okay so bestie, this is the Perl manual page situation (the 3pm kind, a.k.a. User Contributed Perl Documentation, iykyk) and we are going through every single thing in it. No skimming, no skipping, no cap. 🫶

🌸 parse_subject(SUBJECT) 🌸

parse_subject</purl> extracts the valuable informations from a subject line — like clocking exactly who said what in the group chat. 👑

It gets a string containing the subject line (SUBJECT).

It returns an array containing the status, type, filename strings and the bug number if it was provided — or 'undef' if no status is found. Periodt.

🦋 parse_from(FROM) 🦋

parse_from pulls the sender name out of the 'From:' field. The way it does this is giving tiered fallback energy, literally three levels deep:

  1. The name is built from the phrase part of the field. 🌟
  2. If none is found, it's built from the comment part, where the parentheses are removed. ✨
  3. If still none is found, it's built from the address, where all non-alphanumeric characters are turned into spaces. 💫

It gets a string containing the 'From:' field (FROM).

It returns a string containing the name. 💖

🎀 parse_date(DATE) 🎀

parse_date extracts the date from a 'Date:' field. Clocking the timestamp, as one does. 🕰️

It gets a string containing the 'Date:' field (DATE).

It returns a string containing the date in ISO format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss ±hh:mm, based on GMT. So precise, so iconic. 👑

📜 LICENSE 📜

Bestie, the legal bit. Read it, respect it, don't be weird about it. 🫡

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

The legends who made this happen: 🫶

  • 2003,2004 Tim Dijkstra
  • 2004 Nicolas Bertolissio
  • 2004 Martin Quinson
  • 2008 Nicolas François

💀 POD ERRORS 💀

Not me having to report this — the document above had some coding errors, and here's the tea: 🍵

Around line 215:

Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in '±hh:mm'. Assuming
UTF-8

She clocked a non-ASCII character before =encoding and just assumed UTF-8. Honestly? Relatable. 🙈

Sign-off time, bestie — this whole page is running under perl v5.32.0 and it was dated 2021-01-05, and that's the vibe check. Go read your From: fields responsibly. 🎀✨🦋

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