Revision history for Perl extension Parse::FixedLength. 5.39 Wed May 25 16:00:00 2011

• Document href option.
• Allow href from href option to be used in pack.
• add href.t to MANIFEST. 5.38 Wed May 25 16:00:00 2011
• Allow hashref to be passed in to parser. 5.37 Thu Dec 30 16:00:00 2005
• Fix bug in C/c format. 5.36 Thu Dec 1 16:00:00 2005
• Was not always checking correctness of length/start/end. Added test and fixed test error triggered by this fix. 5.35 Sat May 20 01:00:00 2005
• Updated Manifest. Someday I'll automate this. 5.34 Fri May 20 11:00:00 2005
• Added parse_hash(), and parse_newref() convenience methods. Inspired by rt ticket by Curtis "Mr_Person" Hawthorne.
• Fixes to pod, and addition of pod tests. 5.33 Wed Jul 21 17:00:00 2004
• Second hash_to_obj call with same keys as first wasn't working.
• Fixed tests (changed 'ref' to 'isa') which broke after previous change.
• Made example in doc use strict compliant (eliminated bare word string).
• Added format_str() to retrieve pack/unpack format string from parser. 5.32 Fri Jun 11 17:00:00 2004
• Allow any valid pack()/unpack() format in the length field 5.31 Tue Jun 8 17:00:00 2004
• To autoload an lvalue method, AUTOLOAD must be declared as an lvalue method. 5.30 Fri Apr 16 17:00:00 2004
• Took out Makefile.PL code for changing name of test module (see if it shows up on CPAN).
• Document hash_to_obj() method and various other doc format changes. 5.29 Thu Apr 15 17:00:00 2004
• Doc glitch fix. 5.28 Thu Apr 15 17:00:00 2004
• Any single parser will return the same hash ref on every call to parse(). See Caveats.
• Return blessed hash ref object from parse().
• Doc cleanup. I may finally be getting the hang of this pod stuff. 5.27 Mon Oct 6 17:00:00 2003
• Just doc fixes. Patch by Terrence Brannon. 5.26 Tue Sep 25 17:00:00 2001
• Changed the way the subclass test module is created. It was bugging me having to un-rename the test module for a 'make tardist' after a 'make test'.
• added ':all' argument to import argument list. Added test. 5.25 Mon Sep 24 17:00:00 2001
• Added trim option to new method. Added test.
• Allow filehandle to be passed to debug option. 5.24 Wed Sep 19 17:00:00 2001
• Added all_lengths option to parser new() method.
• Changed subclass*.t tests so that the test module doesn't show up on CPAN. No one else that I can find has seemed to worry about this. I'll be the first :-) 5.23 Fri Sep 14 18:00:00 2001
• If no_pack was true for converter object, passing false to convert method was ignored. Added another test. 5.22 Fri Sep 14 15:00:00 2001
• Allow no_pack argument in convert method, added tests 5.21 Fri Sep 14 08:00:00 2001
• Fixed subclass example.
• Added tests for subclassing / import method. 5.20 Thu Sep 13 18:00:00 2001
• Fixed docs. 5.19 Thu Sep 13 15:25:22 2001
• Added import method and allow subclass name to be passed to new() for convenient subclassing.
• Fixed the docs. 5.18 Fri Aug 17 19:25:22 2001
• Fixed dumper() for hash-like format with right justification. Thanks to John Cotter for the catch. 5.16 Mon Aug 13 20:19:36 2001
• Found bug in checking for argument type in Parse::FixedLength::new().
• took out Scalar::Util::reftype. Could not detect any benefit.
• Changed croak()'s to confess()'s. 5.15 Sun Aug 12 14:13:06 PDT 2001
• Better error checking on default argument types in converter method.
• Added option to not pack during convert method. 5.14 Wed Aug 1 Some time later...
• Better error checking on start and end positions. If start is present, then both start and end need to be present. 5.12 Wed Aug 1 08:31:10 PDT 2001
• More error checking, this time for duplicate fields in the format, and an option to get around the check.
• Added tests for new option. 5.11 Mon Jul 30 Later on...
• Added more tests.
• Fixed 'no_validate' option (which wasn't documented yet anyway, along with the start/end validation in general. Add info to docs about this. 5.10 Mon Jul 30 08:47:49 PDT 2001
• Fixed doc examples.
• Added more tests.
• Right justify with no pad character was not defaulting to space. 5.09 Fri Jul 27 Not much later...
• Eval anonymous subs in convert() for better error reporting. 5.08 Fri Jul 27 18:31:02 PDT 2001
• Some doc fixes.
• Various changes after a code review with Graham Barr at TPC, e.g., like adding error checking, making ":" the default delimiter, auto-detecting the formats, and talking me into using Scalar::Util. 5.07 Thu Jul 26 12:51:11 PDT 2001
• Slight efficiency in construction of pack string for (what I think is) the common case.
• Allow converter() method to accept a hashref or arrayref as mapping argument.
• Allow convert() method to accept a hash reference as input. 5.06 Wed Jul 25 10:18:57 PDT 2001
• Added dump() method.
• Separated converter objects from parser objects to make a better cleaner OO universe.
• Cleaned up docs, added examples. 5.05 Tue Jul 24 Later in the day...
• For right justification, if the new format is shorter than the data, we need to trim leading 'pad' characters, not just whitespace. 5.04 Tue Jul 24 12:31:35 PDT 2001
• Added right-justification option.
• Added the questionable feature of the convert method to facilitate converting fixed length formats along with a corresponding test.
• Noticed the similar functionality/purpose of Data::FixedFormat. Oh well, make up your own mind which you'd like to use...I kind of like this one :) 5.03 Thu Jun 28 08:04:27 PDT 2001
• Improved documentation.
• Added length method and more examples, took out some temp variables to tighten up code and obfuscate it a bit :) 5.01 Wed Jun 27 12:06:00 PDT 2001
• Took up the original author's offer to rewrite this module, so I've no idea what happened before this change, there were no other notes except the 0.01 entry.
• Changed to OO style, now uses unpack instead of substr for efficiency, removed some features (for now?) like the predefined parsing constants, but added others (like optionally returning a list instead of a hashref). 0.01 Thu Nov 16 13:41:21 2000
  • original version; created by h2xs 1.20 with options

    -A -X -n Parse::FixedLength