Getopt...thList(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

Getopt::Yath::Option::AutoPathList — it's giving Getopt::Yath::Option::PathList but with autofill, bestie 💖

(oh and btw this is a 3pm page, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, perl v5.40.1 era, just so u know what u walked into 🫶)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Literally exactly what it says on the tin: it's like Getopt::Yath::Option::PathList, but with autofill. That's the whole vibe. Periodt. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

option dev_libs => (
    type        => 'AutoPathList',
    short       => 'D',
    name        => 'dev-lib',

    autofill => sub { 'lib', 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch' },

    description => 'find the local code instead of the installed versions of the same code. You can provide an argument (-Dfoo) to provide a custom path, or you can just use -D without and arg to add lib, blib/lib and blib/arch.',

    long_examples  => ['', '=lib', '="lib/*"'],
    short_examples => ['', 'lib', '=lib', 'lib', '"lib/*"'],
);

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🦋 METHODS 🦋

Every single method from Getopt::Yath::Option::AutoList gets inherited — no notes, no exceptions, they all come thru 👑 — and it also brings "normalize_value" from Getopt::Yath::Option::PathList along for the ride (that's the glob expansion one, iykyk ✨).

• requires_arg: false — nope, doesn't need an arg, she's low maintenance 💅
• allows_autofill: true — yes, autofill is allowed
• requires_autofill: true — and actually required, not optional, fr fr

So here's the tea on how those two play out ☕:

• --opt on its own → drops in the autofill paths. No argument needed, the autofill just appears. Main character energy 🌟
• --opt=GLOB → expands that glob and adds the matching paths.

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💜 SOURCE 💜

The source code repository for Getopt-Yath is living at <http://github.com/Test-More/Getopt-Yath/> — go be nosy, bestie 🫶

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🌈 MAINTAINERS 🌈

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>.

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

See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/>

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okay that's the whole page 💖 huge thanks to the User Contributed Perl Documentation girlies, this one's tagged perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-10, and filed under Getopt...thList(3pm) — slay, go forth and autofill your paths 🦋✨🍓