Perl::...version(3pm)

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✨ NAME ✨

so this is Perl::Critic::Utils::DataConversion bestie 💖 — it's a little toolkit for converting from one type of data to another. like, it does exactly what it says on the tin, no plot twist 🎀

(this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and the manpage header calls it Perl::...version(3pm) because manpage titles get squished, iykyk 💅)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

it provides data conversion functions. that's it, that's the whole vibe. tiny module, big heart 🫶

👑 INTERFACE SUPPORT 👑

okay so this is considered a public module, which means it's main character energy — it's officially part of the API 🎀

any changes to its interface are gonna go through a deprecation cycle. so like, no surprise glow-ups that break your code. we're polite here 💖

🦋 IMPORTABLE SUBS 🦋

here's the roster, bestie. every single one, no skips ⭐

  • boolean_to_number( $value ) — returns 0 or 1 depending on how $value behaves in a boolean context. so it takes the vibe of $value and turns it into a literal number. true? 1. false? 0. slay 🌈
  • dor( $value, $default ) — returns $value or $default, and the deciding factor is literally just whether $value is defined or not. defined? you get $value. not defined? you get $default. simple as 🍓
  • dor_n( $value0, $value1, ... ) — takes a whole squad of arguments and returns the first defined value among them. and if none of them is defined... it simply returns. yeah. that's the whole description. it just returns 💀 (no fallback value, no drama, it's giving "I'm out" 🙈)
  • defined_or_empty( $value ) — returns $value if it's defined, otherwise you get an empty string. so like, dor but the default is "" instead of something you chose ✨

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Elliot Shank <perl@galumph.com> — iconic, we stan 🫶

Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Elliot Shank. 📜

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. the full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Perl::...version(3pm) from perl v5.32.1, dated 2021-10-15 💖 go forth and convert your data types, no cap 🌟👑💅

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