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XString(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation XString(3)

NAME

XString - Isolated String helpers from B

VERSION

version 0.005

SYNOPSIS

 #!perl
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
 use Test::More;
 
 use XString;
 use B;
 
 is XString::cstring( q[a'string"with quotes] ), B::cstring( q[a'string"with quotes] ), q["a'string\"with quotes"];
 is XString::perlstring( q[a'string"with quotes] ), B::perlstring( q[a'string"with quotes] ), q["a'string\"with quotes"];
 
 done_testing;

DESCRIPTION

XString provides the B string helpers in one isolated package. Right now only cstring and perlstring are available.

FUNCTIONS

cstring(STR)

Similar to B::cstring; Returns a double-quote-surrounded escaped version of STR which can be used as a string in C source code.

perlstring(STR)

Similar to B::perlstring; Returns a double-quote-surrounded escaped version of STR which can be used as a string in Perl source code.

AUTHOR

Nicolas R <atoomic@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2018 by cPanel, Inc.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

2020-10-21 perl v5.40.0