ExtUtils::Constant::Utils (3)

Leading comments

Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.09 (Pod::Simple 3.35)

Standard preamble:
========================================================================

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man3/ExtUtils::Constant::Utils.3perl".)

NAME

ExtUtils::Constant::Utils - helper functions for ExtUtils::Constant

SYNOPSIS

    use ExtUtils::Constant::Utils qw (C_stringify);
    $C_code = C_stringify $stuff;

DESCRIPTION

ExtUtils::Constant::Utils packages up utility subroutines used by ExtUtils::Constant, ExtUtils::Constant::Base and derived classes. All its functions are explicitly exportable.

USAGE

C_stringify

NAME

A function which returns a 7 bit

ASCII

correctly \ escaped version of the string passed suitable for C's "" or ''. It will die if passed Unicode characters.

perl_stringify

NAME

A function which returns a 7 bit

ASCII

correctly \ escaped version of the string passed suitable for a perl "" string.

AUTHOR

Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> based on the code in "h2xs" by Larry Wall and others