NAME

       File::LocalizeNewlines - Localize the newlines for one or more files

DESCRIPTION

       For people that routinely work with a mixture of different platforms that have conflicting
       newline formats (mainly *NIX and Win32) there are a number of different situations that
       can result in files having their newlines get corrupted.

       File::LocalizeNewlines provides a mechanism for one off or bulk detection and conversion
       of these files to the newline style for the local platform.

       The module implements the conversion using a standard "universal line seperator" regex,
       which ensures that files with any of the different newlines, plus a couple of common
       "broken" newlines, including multiple different types mixed in the same file, are all
       converted to the local platform's newline style.

METHODS

   new param => value, ...
       The "new" constructor creates a new conversion object.

       By default, the conversion object will process all files and convert them to the local
       platform's newline format.

       Takes some optional parameters

       filter => File::Find::Rule
           The "filter" param allows you to provide an instantiate File::Find::Rule object, that
           will used to determine the list of files to check or process.

       newline => $newline
           The "newline" option allows you to provide an alternative newline format to the local
           one. The newline format should be provided as a literal string.

           For example, to force Win32 newlines, you would use

             my $Object = File::LocalizeNewlines->new( newline => "\015\012" );

       verbose => 1
           The "verbose" option will cause the "File::LocalizeNewlines" object to print status
           information to "STDOUT" as it runs.

       Returns a new "File::LocalizeNewlines" object.

   Find
       The "Find" accessor returns the File::Find::Rule object that will be used for the file
       search.

   newline
       The "newline" accessor returns the newline format that will be used in the localisation
       process.

   localized $file
       The "localized" method takes an argument of a single file name or file handle and tests it
       to see it is localized correctly.

       Returns true if localized correctly, false if not, or "undef" on error.

   find $dir
       The "find" method takes the path for a dir (or file) and returns a list of relative files
       names for all of the files that do not have their newlines correctly localized.

       Returns a list of file names, or the null list if there are no files, or if an incorrect
       path was provided.

   localize $file | $dir
       The "localize" method takes a file, file handle or directory as argument and localizes the
       newlines of the file, or all files within the directory (that match the filter if one was
       provided).

       Returns the number of files that were localized, zero if no files needed to be localized,
       or "undef" on error.

SUPPORT

       Bugs should always be submitted via the CPAN bug tracker

       http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=File-LocalizeNewlines
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=File-LocalizeNewlines>

       For other issues, contact the maintainer.

AUTHOR

       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Thank you to Phase N (http://phase-n.com/ <http://phase-n.com/>) for permitting the open
       sourcing and release of this distribution.

       FileHandle support added by David Dick <ddick@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2005 - 2009 Adam Kennedy.

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

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.