I tried to list all the existing redundant modules at the end of the P:FL documentation. Your module does basically the same as these, the only difference being allowing specifying the 'from' and 'to' arguments, and the returning of an arrayref of all the records. This could be done with small additions to the existing modules (e.g. wrapping the 'new' method in P::FL for the from/to, and wrapping the 'parse' method to open a file and return an arrayref).

And re your comment above about the P::FL docs, yeah, there's alot of it, but most can just be ignored, and if you just stick to the basic stuff, then it's pretty straightforward IMHO. Patches welcome though, for making things more clear, or adding more methods. :-) I can't say that you absolutely shouldn't upload your module, but if I knew about what already existed, I don't think I would have bothered to take over and rewrite P::FL.

In reply to Re: RFC: Text::FixedWidth by runrig
in thread RFC: Text::FixedWidth by arc_of_descent

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