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=head1 NAME

Dpkg::Control::HashCore - parse and manipulate a block of RFC822-like fields

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The Dpkg::Control::Hash class is a hash-like representation of a set of
RFC822-like fields. The fields names are case insensitive and are always
capitalized the same when output (see field_capitalize function in
Dpkg::Control::Fields).
The order in which fields have been set is remembered and is used
to be able to dump back the same content. The output order can also be
overridden if needed.

You can store arbitrary values in the hash, they will always be properly
escaped in the output to conform to the syntax of control files. This is
relevant mainly for multilines values: while the first line is always output
unchanged directly after the field name, supplementary lines are
modified. Empty lines and lines containing only dots are prefixed with
" ." (space + dot) while other lines are prefixed with a single space.

During parsing, trailing spaces are stripped on all lines while leading
spaces are stripped only on the first line of each field.

=head1 METHODS

=over 4

=item $c = Dpkg::Control::Hash->new(%opts)

Creates a new object with the indicated options. Supported options
are:

=over 8

=item allow_pgp

Configures the parser to accept OpenPGP signatures around the control
information. Value can be 0 (default) or 1.

=item allow_duplicate

Configures the parser to allow duplicate fields in the control
information.
The last value overrides any previous values.
Value can be 0 (default) or 1.

=item keep_duplicate

Configure the parser to keep values for duplicate fields found in the control
information (when B<allow_duplicate> is enabled), as array references.
Value can be 0 (default) or 1.

=item drop_empty

Defines if empty fields are dropped during the output. Value can be 0
(default) or 1.

=item name

The user friendly name of the information stored in the object. It might
be used in some error messages or warnings. A default name might be set
depending on the type.

=item is_pgp_signed

Set by the parser (starting in dpkg 1.17.0) if it finds an OpenPGP
signature around the control information. Value can be 0 (default)
or 1, and undef when the option is not supported by the code (in
versions older than dpkg 1.17.0).

=back

=cut

=item $c->set_options($option, %opts)

Changes the value of one or more options.

=cut

=item $value = $c->get_option($option)

Returns the value of the corresponding option.

=cut

=item $c->parse_error($file, $fmt, ...)

Prints an error message and dies on syntax parse errors.

=cut

=item $c->parse($fh, $description)

Parse a control file from the given filehandle. Exits in case of errors.
$description is used to describe the filehandle, ideally it's a filename
or a description of where the data comes from. It's used in error
messages. When called multiple times, the parsed fields are accumulated.

Returns true if some fields have been parsed.

=cut

=item $c->load($file)

Parse the content of $file. Exits in case of errors. Returns true if some
fields have been parsed.

=item $c->find_custom_field($name)

Scan the fields and look for a user specific field whose name matches the
following regex: /X[SBC]*-$name/i. Return the name of the field found or
undef if nothing has been found.

=cut

=item $c->get_custom_field($name)

Identify a user field and retrieve its value.

=cut

=item $str = $c->output()

=item "$c"

Get a string representation of the control information. The fields
are sorted in the order in which they have been read or set except
if the order has been overridden with set_output_order().

=item $c->output($fh)

Print the string representation of the control information to a
filehandle.

=cut

=item $c->save($filename)

Write the string representation of the control information to a file.

=item $c->set_output_order(@fields)

Define the order in which fields will be displayed in the output() method.

=cut

=item $c->apply_substvars($substvars)

Update all fields by replacing the variables references with
the corresponding value stored in the Dpkg::Substvars object.

=cut

=head1 CHANGES

=head2 Version 1.02 (dpkg 1.21.0)

New option: "keep_duplicate" in new().

=head2 Version 1.01 (dpkg 1.17.2)

New method: $c->parse_error().

=head2 Version 1.00 (dpkg 1.17.0)

Mark the module as public.

=cut