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Alien Perl module package contains external libraries wrapped up for your viewing pleasure!

SYNOPSIS

perldoc Alien;

Alien is a package that exists just to hold together an idea, the idea of Alien:: packages, so there is no code here, just motivation for Alien.

Why

James and I ended up doing a build system for Fotango, lots of people have done a build system, it is a pretty boring task. The boring task is really all the mindlessly stupid things you need to do to build C libraries that Perl modules require, these C modules usually have unusual installation systems or require vastly different options. So CPAN modules install easy, 3rd party stuff is nasty.
So, suddenly an idea struck me, Alien packages! Imagine a CPAN module that has as its only task to make sure a certain library is installed! That means that you can write all the voodoo in your Build.PL file and then just make sure the module requires the correct Alien module! Then anything that install Perl modules will deal with it automatically!

How

So, what should an Alien module do? It should make sure that the target is installed and it should provide the caller with enough information to use it.
The idea is that you use it to make sure it is there, and you call class methods to find out what to use. These class methods will be individually specified by the stand alone Alien modules.

No Framework!

The reason this is so loosely worded is because we have no idea what common functionality will be needed, so we will let evolution work for us and see what individual Alien packages need and then eventually factor it out into this packages. I would like to avoid a topdown design approach.

Responsibilities of a Alien module.

On installation, make sure the required package is there, otherwise install it.
On usage, make sure the required package is there, else croak.

Bundle the source with the module, or download it.

Allow module authors to access information it gathers.

Document itself well.

Preferably use Module::Build.

Be sane.

Sdictionary is a cross-platform dictionary project uses own Sdict dictionary format. Sdictionary includes Sdict, the main program and two simple applications: Jotter and Data. Unlike ptkdic or gtkdic no MySQL needed, so you can work with dictionary files directly. Currently it is known to work under UNIX, Win32 and Symbian OS.
Main features:
- Cross-platform, works under UNIX, Win32 and Symbian OS
- Open Source, binary .dct format is also open and described in documentation
- Unicode, all words and articles are stored in UTF-8
- Two index levels: short and full
- Compression for dictionary articles
- Tools to convert from text file to .dct and vice versa under both Win32 and UNIX
- Simple Web Dictionary which is included into package
- C library framework with simple CLI, Win32 binaries are available
- Perl API (Sdict.pm module)
- Simple, but powerful Jotter and Data applications
- Compiler which helps you to create own dictionaries

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has on its web site an HTML form at http://www.usps.com/zip4/ for standardizing an address. Given a firm, urbanization, street address, city, state, and zip, it will put the address into standard form (provided the address is in their database) and display a page with the resulting address.
Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup Perl Module provides a programmatic interface to this service, so you can write a program to process your entire personal address book without having to manually type them all in to the form.
Because the USPS could change or remove this functionality at any time, be prepared for the possibility that this code may fail to function. In fact, as of this version, there is no error checking in place, so if they do change things, this code will most likely fail in a noisy way. If you discover that the service has changed, please email the author your findings.
If an error occurs in trying to standardize the address, then no array will be returned. Otherwise, a four-element array will be returned.
To see debugging output, call $zlu->verbose(1).
SYNOPSIS
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup::Address;
use Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup;
my $addr = Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup::Address->new(
Focus Research, Inc., # Firm
, # Urbanization
8080 Beckett Center Drive Suite 203, # Delivery Address
West Chester, # City
OH, # State
45069-5001 # ZIP Code
);
my $zlu = Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup->new();
my @matches = $zlu->std_addr($addr);
if (@matches) {
printf "n%d matches:n", scalar(@matches);
foreach my $match (@matches) {
print "-" x 39, "n";
print $match->to_string;
print "n";
}
print "-" x 39, "n";
}
else {
print "No matches!n";
}
exit 0;
Enhancements:
- Adapt to yet another round of changes to the USPS Zip Lookup web site, courtesy of Eric Parker.
- Copyright date updates.

PerlIO is a Perl module created to load on demand PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* name space.

SYNOPSIS

open($fh,":utf8", "data.utf");
print F $out;
close(F);

open(F, "<<less