Hi, I want to install a script into CPAN but I don't know what category to place it in. Is there a web page that describes them? I looked at http://cpan.org/scripts/index.html but it does not have a description of the categories.
The script is called "sub" and it creates skeletons of sub's by parsing an usage statement and applying it to a template. An usage statement is not valid Perl but it makes sense. For examples:
$text | @text = trim( @text );
will create:
# -------------------------------------- # Name: trim # Usage: $text = trim( @text ); # @text = trim( @text ); # Purpose: TBD # Parameters: @text -- TBD # Returns: $text -- TBD # @text -- TBD # sub trim { my @text = @_; my $text = ''; return wantarray ? @text : $text; }
and
\%options = $object->get_options( ; @option_names );
will create:
# -------------------------------------- # Name: get_options # Usage: \%options = $object->get_options( ; @option_names ); # Purpose: TBD # Parameters: @option_names -- TBD # Returns: \%options -- TBD # sub get_options { my $self = shift @_; my @option_names = @_; my $options = {}; return $options; }
Can someone suggest a category for it?

In reply to Understanding CPAN's SCRIPT CATEGORIES by shawnhcorey

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