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Name

Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary - read binary property list files

Synopsis

# use directly
use Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary;

my $parser = Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary->new( $file );

my $plist = $parser->plist;

# use indirectly, automatically selects right reader
use Mac::PropertyList;

my $plist = parse_plist_file( $file );

Description

This module is a low-level interface to the Mac OS X Property List (plist) format. You probably shouldn't use this in applications---build interfaces on top of this so you don't have to put all the heinous multi-level object stuff where people have to look at it.

You can parse a plist file and get back a data structure. You can take that data structure and get back the plist as XML (but not binary yet). If you want to change the structure inbetween that's your business. :)

See "Mac::PropertyList" for more details.

Methods

new( FILENAME | SCALAR_REF | FILEHANDLE ): Opens the data source, doing the right thing for filenames, scalar references, or a filehandle.
plist: Returns the "Mac::PropertyList" data structure.

Source Availability

This project is in Github:

git://github.com/briandfoy/mac-propertylist.git

Credits

Author

brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"

Copyright And License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.