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+SUMMARY="Emulate file interface for in-core strings"
+DESCRIPTION="The IO::String module provides the IO::File interface for in-core strings. An \
+IO::String object can be attached to a string, and makes it possible to use the normal file \
+operations for reading or writing data, as well as for seeking to various locations of the \
+string. This is useful when you want to use a library module that only provides an interface to \
+file handles on data that you have in a string variable.
+Note that perl-5.8 and better has built-in support for \"in memory\" files, which are set up by \
+passing a reference instead of a filename to the open() call. The reason for using this module is \
+that it makes the code backwards compatible with older versions of Perl.
+The IO::String module provides an interface compatible with IO::File as distributed with IO-1.20, \
+but the following methods are not available: new_from_fd, fdopen, format_write, \
+format_page_number, format_lines_per_page, format_lines_left, format_name, format_top_name."
+HOMEPAGE="https://metacpan.org/pod/IO::String"
+COPYRIGHT="1998-2005 Gisle Aas"
+LICENSE="Artistic"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/IO-String-$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="2a3f4ad8442d9070780e58ef43722d19d1ee21a803bf7c8206877a10482de5a0"
+SOURCE_DIR="IO-String-$portVersion"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="any"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	io_string = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku
+	vendor_perl
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:perl
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$prefix
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make pure_install
+
+	# remove architecture-specific files
+	cd $prefix
+	rm -r $(perl -V:vendorarch | cut -d\' -f2 | cut -d/ -f5-)
+		# cut extracts the quoted string and strips the prefix (which is perl's and not ours)
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make test
+}