Source: libdata-binary-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdata-binary-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdata-binary-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Binary Package: libdata-binary-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: module for detection of binary versus text in strings The Data::Binary module provides string equivalents to the -T / -B operators. Since these only work on file names and file handles, this module provides the same functions but on strings. . Note that the actual implementation is currently different, basically because the -T / -B functions are in C/XS, and this module is written in pure Perl. For now, anyway.