I am looking for module to extract the version # from other files or module files without the need to look threw the file
i try to parse it out; (there are some odd files).
open (my $file,'<','file path');
my $Version= ver($file||'file path');
If all you are trying to do is parse it the same way that ident does, then you don't need to get very fancy, the parser in ident isn't all that intelligent, it just looks for things between the delimiters. I usually just do it from the command line with ack...