NAME

Test::Lintian::ConfigFile -- generic helper routines for colon-delimited configuration files

SYNOPSIS

use Test::Lintian::ConfigFile qw(read_config); my $desc = read_config('t/tags/testname/desc');

DESCRIPTION

Routines for dealing with colon-delimited configuration files.

FUNCTIONS

read_config(PATH, HASHREF)

Reads the configuration file located at PATH into a hash and returns it. When also passed a HASHREF, will fill that instead.

write_config(TEST_CASE, PATH)

Write the config described by hash reference TEST_CASE to the file named PATH.

read_field_from_file(FIELD, FILE)

Returns the list of lines from file FILE which start with the string FIELD followed by a colon. The string FIELD and the colon are removed from each line.