Sys::Info::Base(3)

NAME
Sys::Info::Base

VERSION
version 0.7810

SYNOPSIS
    use parent qw(Sys::Info::Base);
    #...
    sub foo {
        my $self = shift;
        my $data = $self->slurp("/foo/bar.txt");
    }

DESCRIPTION
Includes some common methods.

NAME
Sys::Info::Base - Base class for Sys::Info

METHODS

  load_module CLASS
Loads the module named with "CLASS".

  load_subclass TEMPLATE
Loads the specified class via "TEMPLATE":

    my $class = __PACKAGE__->load_subclass('Sys::Info::Driver::%s::OS');

%s will be replaced with "OSID". Apart from the template usage, it is the same as "load_module".

  trim STRING
Returns the trimmed version of "STRING".

  slurp FILE
Caches all contents of "FILE" into a scalar and then returns it.

  read_file FILE
Caches all contents of "FILE" into an array and then returns it.

  date2time DATE_STRING
Converts "DATE_STRING" into unix timestamp.

  uname
Returns a hashref built from "POSIX::uname".

SEE ALSO
Sys::Info.

AUTHOR
Burak Gursoy

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2006 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.