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Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary(3)

Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary - read binary property list files

        # use directly
        use Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary;

        my $parser = Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary->new( $file );

        my $plist = $parser->plist;

        # use indirectly, automatically selects right reader
        use Mac::PropertyList;

        my $plist = parse_plist_file( $file );

This module is a low-level interface to the Mac OS X Property List (plist) format. You probably shouldn't use this in applications—build interfaces on top of this so you don't have to put all the heinous multi-level object stuff where people have to look at it.

You can parse a plist file and get back a data structure. You can take that data structure and get back the plist as XML (but not binary yet). If you want to change the structure inbetween that's your business. :)

See "Mac::PropertyList" for more details.

new( FILENAME | SCALAR_REF | FILEHANDLE )
Opens the data source, doing the right thing for filenames, scalar references, or a filehandle.
plist
Returns the "Mac::PropertyList" data structure.

Some of the ideas are cribbed from CFBinaryPList.c

        http://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-550/CFBinaryPList.c

This project is in Github:

        git://github.com/briandfoy/mac-propertylist.git

brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"

Tom Wyant added support for UID types.

Copyright © 2004-2021, brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.

2021-01-19 perl v5.32.1

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