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diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm index c04d4ab389..6e71f71a4f 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm @@ -8013,6 +8013,37 @@ and @code{deserialize_regexp}.") safely on things that may not be objects.") (license (package-license perl)))) +(define-public perl-scalar-string + (package + (name "perl-scalar-string") + (version "0.003") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append + "mirror://cpan/authors/id/Z/ZE/ZEFRAM/Scalar-String-" + version ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0llbsqk7rsg9p7l1f4yk6iv7wij91gvavprsqhnb04w7nz4ifjpm")))) + (build-system perl-build-system) + (native-inputs + `(("perl-module-build" ,perl-module-build) + ("perl-test-pod" ,perl-test-pod) + ("perl-test-pod-coverage" ,perl-test-pod-coverage))) + (home-page "https://metacpan.org/release/Scalar-String") + (synopsis "String aspects of scalars") + (description "@code{Scalar::String} is about the string part of +plain Perl scalars. A scalar has a string value, which is notionally +a sequence of Unicode codepoints but may be internally encoded in +either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. In places, more so in older versions of +Perl, the internal encoding shows through. To fully understand Perl +strings it is necessary to understand these implementation details. +This module provides functions to classify a string by encoding and to +encode a string in a desired way. The module is implemented in XS, +with a pure Perl backup version for systems that cannot handle XS.") + (license perl-license))) + (define-public perl-scope-guard (package (name "perl-scope-guard") |