NAME

Path::Abstract - Fast and featureful UNIX-style path manipulation

VERSION

Version 0.093

SYNOPSIS

  use Path::Abstract;

  my $path = Path::Abstract->new("/apple/banana");

  # $parent is "/apple"
  my $parent = $path->parent;

  # $cherry is "/apple/banana/cherry.txt"
  my $cherry = $path->child("cherry.txt");

METHODS

Path::Abstract->new( <path> )

Path::Abstract->new( <part>, [ <part>, ..., <part> ] )

Create a new Path::Abstract object using <path> or by joining each <part> with "/"

Returns the new Path::Abstract object

Path::Abstract::path( <path> )

Path::Abstract::path( <part>, [ <part>, ..., <part> ] )

Create a new Path::Abstract object using <path> or by joining each <part> with "/"

Returns the new Path::Abstract object

$path->clone

Returns an exact copy of $path

$path->set( <path> )

$path->set( <part>, [ <part>, ..., <part> ] )

Set the path of $path to <path> or the concatenation of each <part> (separated by "/")

Returns $path

$path->is_nil

$path->is_empty

Returns true if $path is equal to ""

$path->is_root

Returns true if $path is equal to "/"

$path->is_tree

Returns true if $path begins with "/"

        path("/a/b")->is_tree # Returns true
        path("c/d")->is_tree # Returns false

$path->is_branch

Returns true if $path does NOT begin with a "/"

        path("c/d")->is_branch # Returns true
        path("/a/b")->is_branch # Returns false

$path->to_tree

Change $path by prefixing a "/" if it doesn't have one already

Returns $path

$path->to_branch

Change $path by removing a leading "/" if it has one

Returns $path

$path->list

$path->split

Returns the path in list form by splitting at each "/"

        path("c/d")->list # Returns ("c", "d")
        path("/a/b/")->last # Returns ("a", "b")

$path->first

Returns the first part of $path up to the first "/" (but not including the leading slash, if any)

        path("c/d")->first # Returns "c"
        path("/a/b")->first # Returns "a"

$path->last

Returns the last part of $path up to the last "/"

        path("c/d")->last # Returns "d"
        path("/a/b/")->last # Returns "b"

$path->get

$path->stringify

Returns the path in string or scalar form

        path("c/d")->get # Returns "c/d"

$path->push( <part>, [ <part>, ..., <part> ] )

$path->down( <part>, [ <part>, ..., <part> ] )

Modify $path by appending each <part> to the end of \$path, separated by "/"

Returns $path

$path->child( <part>, [ <part>, ..., <part> ] )

Make a copy of $path and push each <part> to the end of the new path.

Returns the new child path

$path->pop( <count> )

Modify $path by removing <count> parts from the end of $path

Returns the removed path as a Path::Abstract object

$path->up( <count> )

Modify $path by removing <count> parts from the end of $path

Returns $path

$path->parent( <count> )

Make a copy of $path and pop <count> parts from the end of the new path

Returns the new parent path

$path->dir

$path->dir( <part>, [ <part>, ..., <part> ] )

Create a new Path::Class::Dir object using $path as a base, and optionally extending it by each <part>

Returns the new dir object

$path->file

$path->file( <part>, [ <part>, ..., <part> ] )

Create a new Path::Class::File object using $path as a base, and optionally extending it by each <part>

Returns the new file object

SEE ALSO

Path::Class

File::Spec

Path::Resource

AUTHOR

Robert Krimen, <rkrimen at cpan.org>

SOURCE

You can contribute or fork this project via GitHub:

http://github.com/robertkrimen/path-abstract/tree/master

    git clone git://github.com/robertkrimen/path-abstract.git Path-Abstract

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-path-lite at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Path-Abstract. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Path::Abstract

You can also look for information at:

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Path-Abstract

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Path-Abstract

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Path-Abstract

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Path-Abstract

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Joshua ben Jore, Max Kanat-Alexander, and Scott McWhirter for discovering the "use overload ..." slowdown issue.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2007 Robert Krimen, all rights reserved.

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