Text::T...e::Util(3)

💖 Text::Template::Simple::Util 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to the manual page for Text::Template::Simple::Util, which lives in the Text::T...e::Util(3) section of your friendly neighborhood User Contributed Perl Documentation. pull up a chair 🫶

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✨ VERSION ✨

version 0.91 — that's the one, no cap

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

   TODO

yes. literally just TODO. the author left us on read and honestly? iconic. moving on 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically this module is where all the little utility functions for Text::Template::Simple hang out. it's the backstage crew, the glam squad, the ones doing the real work behind the curtain ✨

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👑 NAME 👑

Text::Template::Simple::Util — Utility functions. that's the whole vibe. it does utility stuff. it's the utility-est 🎀

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🔥 FUNCTIONS 🔥

💜 DEBUG

hands you back the debug status. that's it, that's the function.

💜 DIGEST

hands you back the "digester" object. go on, take it, it's yours.

💜 binary_mode FILE_HANDLE, LAYER

sets the I/O layer of FILE_HANDLE — but only on the modern "perls". on anything older it just sets "binmode" on FILE_HANDLE instead. choose your fighter, your perl decides for you 🫠

💜 L TYPE, ID [, PARAMETERS]

Internal method. not for you bestie, it's private business 🙈

💜 fatal ID [, PARAMETERS]

Also an internal method. same energy, also not your business 💀

💜 "trim STRING"

returns the trimmed version of "STRING". whitespace? gone. evicted.

💜 "ltrim STRING"

returns the left trimmed version of "STRING". only the left side gets the treatment, the right side stays unbothered.

💜 "rtrim STRING"

returns the right trimmed version of "STRING". mirror image, same energy ✨

💜 escape CHAR, STRING

escapes every single occurrence of "CHAR" inside "STRING" — with backslashes. all of them. every last one. no cap 🪄

💜 visualize_whitespace STRING

swaps out the white space in "STRING" for visual representations, so you can actually see what's lurking in there 👀

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🌈 OVERRIDABLE FUNCTIONS 🌈

🎀 LOG

if debugging mode is turned on in Text::Template::Simple, then all the debugging messages get captured by this function and printed out to "STDERR". that's the default behaviour, that's what she does 💅

but wait — there's more. if a sub named Text::Template::Simple::Util::MYLOG is defined, then every single call to LOG gets redirected to that sub instead. so if you're trying to save your debugging messages to a file, or into a database, you must define the MYLOG sub. that's the assignment, bestie, it's on you 🫡

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💫 AUTHOR 💫

Burak Gursoy <burak@cpan.org> — the mastermind, the moment, the author 🫶

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⭐ COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE ⭐

This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Burak Gursoy.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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ok that's the whole page, go forth and template responsibly 💖

and that's a wrap, bestie — this lil page came to you courtesy of perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, filed under Text::T...e::Util(3). mwah 💋✨