NAME

Module::Extract::VERSION - Extract a module version without running code

SYNOPSIS

        use Module::Extract::VERSION;

DESCRIPTION

This module lets you pull out of module source code the version number for the module. It assumes that there is only one $VERSION in the file.

Class methods

$class->parse_version_safely( FILE );

Given a module file, return the module version. This works just like mldistwatch in PAUSE. It looks for the single line that has the $VERSION statement, extracts it, evals it, and returns the result.

In scalar context, it returns just the version as a string. In list context, it returns the list of:

        sigil
        fully-qualified variable name
        version value
        file name
        line number of $VERSION

SOURCE AVAILABILITY

This code is in Github:

        git://github.com/briandfoy/module-extract-version.git

AUTHOR

brian d foy, <bdfoy@cpan.org>

I stole the some of this code from mldistwatch in the PAUSE code by Andreas König, but I've moved most of it around.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

You may redistribute this under the same terms as Perl itself.

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