Poet::Util::File(3pm)

💖 Poet::Util::File 💖

okay bestie, you found it — this is the manual page for Poet::Util::File, part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection. it's a lil grab-bag of file utilities, and honestly? it ate. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Poet::Util::File — file utilities. that's it, that's the whole vibe. it's giving "helper functions so you don't have to remember which CPAN module does what." 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the tea on how you actually pull these in. three flavors, depending on where you're at:

# In a script...
use Poet::Script qw(:file);

# In a module...
use Poet qw(:file);

# In a component...
<%class>
use Poet qw(:file);
</%class>

like, qw(:file) is the magic word that unlocks the whole bundle. slay. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this group of utilities is literally just a curated squad of file-handling helpers, re-exported so you don't have to go hunting. here's who's in the group chat:

• basename, dirname — these two are on loan from File::Basename. classic icons. 👑
• mkpath, make_path, rmtree, remove_tree — straight out of File::Path. directory-making and directory-deleting, no cap. (yes, both the old-school names and the shiny new ones. they're all here. periodt.)
• read_file, write_file, read_dir — courtesy of File::Slurp. reading and writing files without the suffering. 😭
• abs2rel canonpath catdir catfile rel2abs — the File::Spec::Functions crew. path math, but make it portable. 🧚

fr fr, this is a re-export situation — every one of these is a real function living in its real home module, just handed to you through Poet so your code stays cute and short.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Poet — the main character, obviously. go read that one too. 💜

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Jonathan Swartz <swartz@pobox.com> — wrote this whole thing. legend behavior. 🫶

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⭐ COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE ⭐

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Jonathan Swartz.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so like, go wild, respectfully. 💖

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! this page came to you from perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-18. mwah 💅✨