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Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary(3) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary(3) |
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.
SEE ALSO¶
Some of the ideas are cribbed from CFBinaryPList.c
http://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-550/CFBinaryPList.c
SOURCE AVAILABILITY¶
This project is in Github:
https://github.com/briandfoy/mac-propertylist.git
CREDITS¶
AUTHOR¶
brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"
Tom Wyant added support for UID types.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
Copyright © 2004-2021, brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.
2022-07-09 | perl v5.38.2 |