NAME

       Sys::Info::Base

VERSION

       version 0.7807

SYNOPSIS

           use base qw(Sys::Info::Base);
           #...
           sub foo {
               my $self = shift;
               my $data = $self->slurp("/foo/bar.txt");
           }

DESCRIPTION

       Includes some common methods.

NAME

       Sys::Info::Base - Base class for Sys::Info

METHODS

   load_module CLASS
       Loads the module named with "CLASS".

   load_subclass TEMPLATE
       Loads the specified class via "TEMPLATE":

           my $class = __PACKAGE__->load_subclass('Sys::Info::Driver::%s::OS');

       %s will be replaced with "OSID". Apart from the template usage, it is the same as
       "load_module".

   trim STRING
       Returns the trimmed version of "STRING".

   slurp FILE
       Caches all contents of "FILE" into a scalar and then returns it.

   read_file FILE
       Caches all contents of "FILE" into an array and then returns it.

   date2time DATE_STRING
       Converts "DATE_STRING" into unix timestamp.

   uname
       Returns a hashref built from "POSIX::uname".

SEE ALSO

       Sys::Info.

AUTHOR

       Burak Gursoy <burak@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Burak Gursoy.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.