NAME

Meta::Utils::Progname - give you the name of the current script.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Progname.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.25

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::Progname qw();
        my($prog)=Meta::Utils::Progname::progname();

DESCRIPTION

This is a lean and mean library to give you the name of the current script you're running.

Why should you have such a library ? Doesn't $0 contain that ? Well - anyone that think that $0 is a good variable name for holding the current script name raise his hand! No one ? good. Use this library - I'm sure that $0 will be gone one day and they you'll be sorry.

FUNCTIONS

        basename()
        progname()
        fullname()
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

basename()

This method will give you the name of the current perl script you are running without the a ".pl" extension. If your script does not have a ".pl" extension calling this method will cause an exception so you better know which type of standard for names your scripts follow.

progname()

Give you the name of the current perl script you are running in. The implementation is currently just taking the $0 variable (which holds the running image path) and removes all the junk using the basename function.

fullname()

This routine returns the full path to the current script. This could be useful for various purposes.

TEST($)

A small test suite for this module. Call it to test the functionality of the module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV initial code brought in
        0.01 MV make quality checks on perl code
        0.02 MV more perl checks
        0.03 MV check that all uses have qw
        0.04 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
        0.05 MV more on tests/more checks to perl
        0.06 MV perl code quality
        0.07 MV more perl quality
        0.08 MV more perl quality
        0.09 MV perl documentation
        0.10 MV more perl quality
        0.11 MV more perl code quality
        0.12 MV revision change
        0.13 MV languages.pl test online
        0.14 MV perl packaging
        0.15 MV md5 project
        0.16 MV database
        0.17 MV perl module versions in files
        0.18 MV movies and small fixes
        0.19 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.20 MV dbman package creation
        0.21 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.22 MV website construction
        0.23 MV web site automation
        0.24 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.25 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), File::Basename(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.

cpanm Meta::Init

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Meta::Init