OpenBSD::PkgSpec3p
"packages-specs(7)" handling
Usage
use OpenBSD::Search; # which pulls in OpenBSD::PkgSpec when neededmy $spec = OpenBSD::Search::PkgSpec->new($pattern);@sublist = $spec->filter(@list);
Overview
"OpenBSD::PkgSpec" is the canonical interface to "packages-specs(7)" handling.
A package specification $pattern is a string that can be used to extract matching package names from a @list. The resulting list @sublist will only hold the package names that match the specification.
For performance reason, the result may contain duplicates.
Note that any pattern will create a "PkgSpec" object. If the syntax is incorrect, the resulting object won't match anything. Use "$spec->is_valid" to check for correctness.
Releases
32 releases since OpenBSD 5.0; the text changed 20 times.