Mac::Pr...adBinary(3)

💖 Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary 💖

okay so welcome to the Mac::Pr...adBinary(3) page — User Contributed Perl Documentation — and we're about to read binary property list files together, bestie. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary — read binary property list files 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

# use directly
use Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary;

my $parser = Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary->new( $file );

my $plist = $parser->plist;

# use indirectly, automatically selects right reader
use Mac::PropertyList;

my $plist = parse_plist_file( $file );

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this module is a low-level interface to the Mac OS X Property List (plist) format. You probably shouldn't use this in applications—build interfaces on top of this so you don't have to put all the heinous multi-level object stuff where people have to look at it. 💅

You can parse a plist file and get back a data structure. You can take that data structure and get back the plist as XML (but not binary yet). If you want to change the structure inbetween that's your business. :) 🌈

See Mac::PropertyList for more details.

🛠️ Methods 🛠️

• new( FILENAME | SCALAR_REF | FILEHANDLE ) — opens the data source, doing the right thing for filenames, scalar references, or a filehandle.
• plist — returns the Mac::PropertyList data structure.

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

Some of the ideas are cribbed from CFBinaryPList.c — iconic source, honestly:

http://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-550/CFBinaryPList.c

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🐙 SOURCE AVAILABILITY 🐙

This project is in Github:

https://github.com/briandfoy/mac-propertylist.git

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💅 CREDITS 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

brian d foy, "<briandfoy@pobox.com>" — that's the author, bestie. 💖

Tom Wyant added support for UID types.

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📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

The legal bits, exactly as they appear:

Copyright © 2004-2024, brian d foy <briandfoy@pobox.com>. All rights
reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.

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k bye bestie — this page is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2024-07-27, and it's the Mac::Pr...adBinary(3) manual. 🫶💖