use Date::Parse;
use IO::File;
+use Data::Dumper;
use Carp;
require Exporter;
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(atime ztime cldate cldatetime slat slong yesno promptf
- parray parraypairs shellregex readfilestr
+ parray parraypairs shellregex readfilestr writefilestr
print_all_fields cltounix iscallsign
);
{
my ($dir, $file, $suffix) = @_;
my $fn;
-
+ my $f;
if ($suffix) {
- $fn = "$dir/$file.$suffix";
+ $f = uc $file;
+ $fn = "$dir/$f.$suffix";
unless (-e $fn) {
- my $f = uc $file;
+ $f = lc $file;
$fn = "$dir/$file.$suffix";
}
} elsif ($file) {
+ $f = uc $file;
$fn = "$dir/$file";
unless (-e $fn) {
- my $f = uc $file;
+ $f = lc $file;
$fn = "$dir/$file";
}
} else {
$fn = $dir;
}
+
my $fh = new IO::File $fn;
my $s = undef;
if ($fh) {
}
return $s;
}
+
+# write out a file in the format required for reading
+# in via readfilestr, it expects the same arguments
+# and a reference to an object
+sub writefilestr
+{
+ my $dir = shift;
+ my $file = shift;
+ my $suffix = shift;
+ my $obj = shift;
+ my $fn;
+ my $f;
+
+ confess('no object to write in writefilestr') unless $obj;
+ confess('object not a reference in writefilestr') unless ref $obj;
+
+ if ($suffix) {
+ $f = uc $file;
+ $fn = "$dir/$f.$suffix";
+ unless (-e $fn) {
+ $f = lc $file;
+ $fn = "$dir/$file.$suffix";
+ }
+ } elsif ($file) {
+ $f = uc $file;
+ $fn = "$dir/$file";
+ unless (-e $fn) {
+ $f = lc $file;
+ $fn = "$dir/$file";
+ }
+ } else {
+ $fn = $dir;
+ }
+
+ my $fh = new IO::File ">$fn";
+ if ($fh) {
+ my $dd = new Data::Dumper([ $obj ]);
+ $dd->Indent(1);
+ $dd->Terse(1);
+ $dd->Quotekeys(0);
+ # $fh->print(@_) if @_ > 0; # any header comments, lines etc
+ $fh->print($dd->Dumpxs);
+ $fh->close;
+ }
+}