On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Thomas Pfau wrote:
> Well, since FlatFile is kind of dependant on VMS::IndexedFile, I could
> see it falling into the VMS:: namespace but Formatter can stand on its
> own. As a matter of fact, I was looking for something to use as an
> example and wrote a description for a tar file header block and it
> worked! I could see it being used for things like parsing C structures
> (like sockaddr?) instead of having to remember pack formats and stuff.
>
> Keep the name suggestions coming...
>
Hmm looking at the long module list for the string /Format/i there appears
to be:
Date::Format
Time::CTime Format Times ala ctime(3) with many format
Data::Check Checks values for various data formats
Spreadsheet::
::WriteExcel Write numbers & text in Excel binary format
Text::Format Advanced paragraph formatting
Number::Format Package for formatting numbers for display
HTML::Formatter Convert HTML to plain text or Postscript
HTTP::Date Date conversion for HTTP date formats
So oddly enough it looks like C<Formatter> has not been taken.
> > You ought to consider distributing them via CPAN - go to a CPAN site
> > and hunt down the PAUSE documentation. I found that with web uploads
> > it was ridiculously easy to pop modules onto CPAN just recently (I
> > had even forgotten my password for a long time).
>
> I'll look into this. I've been working on the documentation. Expect
> this stuff to show up at http://www.eclipse.net/~pfau/perl/ shortly.
Try this URL for example:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html
Peter Prymmer
