I want to release a module to CPAN. My module parses a file containing records and returns one object/hash/doesn't-matter-in-this-context per record. Each record contains one or more key:value pairs. Each line of the file contains only one key:value pair.

My problem is that I don't know if this style of file has a particular name and therefore I cannot name the module :)

In case it matters, an example of such a file may look like: 

HEADER1:value
HEADER2:value
ID:value
KEY1:value
KEY2:value
...
ID:value
KEY1:value
KEY2:value
FOOTER1:value

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so each record, in this case, has an ID, a KEY1 and a KEY2.

In real life, however, it is more complicated than that. Each record always has an ID, and always starts with an ID in the file (this is how I can separate the records out). However, there are around 10 different KEYs. In each record, the KEYs may appear in a different order: 

HEADER1:value
HEADER2:value
ID:value
KEY1:value
KEY2:value
KEY3:value
ID:value
KEY2:value
KEY1:value
KEY3:value
...

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and not every record has all the keys: 

HEADER1:value
HEADER2:value
ID:value
KEY1:value
KEY2:value
KEY3:value
ID:value
KEY3:value
KEY2:value
ID:value
KEY5:value
...

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So, what should I call my module? File::Parser::Something? Something::Parser? Parser::Something?

What should the Something be?

(Please note that I am not asking for solutions as to how to parse the file and return the records - I have already done this. I am purely asking about the module's potential name.)

In reply to Trying to name a file parsing module for CPAN by fx

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