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Env::Path presents an object-oriented interface to "path variables",
defined as that subclass of environment variables which name an
ordered list of filesystem elements separated by a platform-standard
separator (typically ':' on UNIX and ';' on Windows).
Of course, core Perl constructs such
$ENV{PATH} .= ":/usr/local/bin";
will suffice for most uses. Env::Path is for the others; cases where
you need to insert or remove interior path entries, strip redundancies,
operate on a pathvar without having to know whether the current
platform uses ":" or ";", operate on a pathvar which may have a
different name on different platforms, etc.
The OO interface is slightly unusual in that the environment variable
is itself the object, and the constructor is Env::Path->AUTOLOAD; thus
Env::Path->MANPATH;
will bless $ENV{MANPATH} into its package while leaving it otherwise
unmodified (with the exception of possible autovivification). Unlike
most objects, this is a scalar and thus can have only one attribute;
its value.
In other words, Env::Path simply defines a set of methods a path
variable may call on itself without changing the variable's value or
other semantics.
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