Source: libscalar-listify-perl
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Radu-Bogdan Croitoru <croitoruradubogdan@gmail.com>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
Build-Depends-Indep: perl
Standards-Version: 3.9.5
Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libscalar-listify-perl.git
Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libscalar-listify-perl.git
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Scalar-Listify
Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl

Package: libscalar-listify-perl
Architecture: all
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
Description: module that produces an array/arrayref from a scalar value or array ref 
 A lot of Perl code ends up with scalars having either a single scalar value
 or a reference to an array of scalar values. In order to handle the two
 conditions, one must check for what is in the scalar value before getting on
 with one's task. Ie:
 .
  $text_scalar = 'text';
 .
  $aref_scalar = [ 1.. 5 ];
 .
  print ref($text_scalar) ? (join ':', @$text_scalar) : $text_scalar;