NAME

       Log::Report::Util - helpful routines to Log::Report

INHERITANCE

        Log::Report::Util
          is a Exporter

DESCRIPTION

       This module collects a few functions and definitions which are shared between different
       components in the Log::Report infrastructure.

FUNCTIONS

       escape_chars(STRING)
           Replace all escape characters into their readable counterpart.  For instance, a new-
           line is replaced by backslash-n.

       expand_reasons(REASONS)
           Returns a sub-set of all existing message reason labels, based on the content REASONS
           string. The following rules apply:
            REASONS = BLOCK [ ',' BLOCKS]
            BLOCK   = '-' TO | FROM '-' TO | ONE | SOURCE
            FROM,TO,ONE = 'TRACE' | 'ASSERT' | ,,, | 'PANIC'
            SOURCE  = 'USER' | 'PROGRAM' | 'SYSTEM' | 'ALL'

           The SOURCE specification group all reasons which are usually related to the problem:
           report about problems caused by the user, reported by the program, or with system
           interaction.

           example: of expended REASONS

            WARNING-FAULT # == WARNING,MISTAKE,ERROR,FAULT
            -INFO         # == TRACE-INFO
            ALERT-        # == ALERT,FAILURE,PANIC
            USER          # == MISTAKE,ERROR
            ALL           # == TRACE-PANIC

       parse_locale(STRING)
           Decompose a locale string.

           For simplicity of the caller's code, the capatization of the returned fields is
           standardized to the preferred, although the match is case- insensitive as required by
           the RFC. The territory in returned in capitals (ISO3166), the language is lower-case
           (ISO639), the script as upper-case first, the character-set as lower-case, and the
           modifier and variant unchanged.

           In LIST context, four elements are returned: language, territory, character-set
           (codeset), and modifier.  Those four are important for the usual unix translationg
           infrastructure.  Only the "country" is obligatory, the others can be "undef".  It may
           also return "C" and "POSIX".

           In SCALAR context, a HASH is returned which can contain more information: language,
           script, territory, variant, codeset, and modifiers.  The variant (RFC3066 is probably
           never used)

       unescape_chars(STRING)
           Replace all backslash-something escapes by their escape character.  For instance,
           backslash-t is replaced by a tab character.

SYNOPSYS

        my ($language, $territory, $charset, $modifier)
           = parse_locale 'nl_BE.utf-8@home';

        my @take = expand_reasons 'INFO-ERROR,PANIC';

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of Log-Report distribution version 0.998, built on October 22, 2013.
       Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/log-report/

LICENSE

       Copyrights 2007-2013 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.  See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html