NAME Parse::CPAN::Meta - Parse META.yml and other similar CPAN metadata files SYNOPSIS ############################################# # In your file --- rootproperty: blah section: one: two three: four Foo: Bar empty: ~ ############################################# # In your program use Parse::CPAN::Meta; # Create a YAML file my @yaml = Parse::CPAN::Meta::LoadFile( 'Meta.yml' ); # Reading properties my $root = $yaml[0]->{rootproperty}; my $one = $yaml[0]->{section}->{one}; my $Foo = $yaml[0]->{section}->{Foo}; DESCRIPTION Parse::CPAN::Meta is a parser for META.yml files, based on the parser half of YAML::Tiny. It supports a basic subset of the full YAML specification, enough to implement parsing of typical META.yml files, and other similarly simple YAML files. If you need something with more power, move up to a full YAML parser such as YAML, YAML::Syck or YAML::LibYAML. Parse::CPAN::Meta provides a very simply API of only two functions, based on the YAML functions of the same name. Wherever possible, identical calling semantics are used. All error reporting is done with exceptions (die'ing). FUNCTIONS For maintenance clarity, no functions are exported. Load my @yaml = Load( $string ); Parses a string containing a valid YAML stream into a list of Perl data structures. LoadFile my @yaml = LoadFile( 'META.yml' ); Reads the YAML stream from a file instead of a string. SUPPORT Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Parse-CPAN-Meta> AUTHOR Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> SEE ALSO YAML, YAML::Syck, Config::Tiny, CSS::Tiny, <http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/29427>, <http://ali.as/> COPYRIGHT Copyright 2006 - 2009 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.