Inline Files

ambs has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Kwiki uses a module to extract files from a PM file (using the DATA section of the file), but that module is not properly easy to use (cannon for a fly).

Is there any other I can use?

Alberto Simões

Comment on Inline Files

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Re: Inline Files by Joost (Canon) on Sep 05, 2007 at 20:55 UTC
Perl modules are just files. Finding the __DATA__ line in a module shouldn't be difficult. In other words, what are you trying to do? "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^2: Inline Files by ambs (Pilgrim) on Sep 05, 2007 at 21:20 UTC
Ok, I should have explained it better. I just want to have a .pm file where __DATA__ is: __DATA__ ==foo.jpg== 687682423AB628734FE274273894 (base64 dump) ==foo.html== <html> <head> </head> </html> and in the pm code I want to do things as: writefile($dir, "foo.jpg"); I know this is quite easy to do. But probably there is a module for that already. Alberto Simões	[reply]
Re^3: Inline Files by Joost (Canon) on Sep 05, 2007 at 21:27 UTC
Inline::File does something similar, but it doesn't support base64 encoded files directly. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]


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