Source: libstring-tagged-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Andrej Shadura Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), libmodule-build-perl, perl Build-Depends-Indep: libtest-identity-perl Standards-Version: 4.4.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libstring-tagged-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libstring-tagged-perl Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/String-Tagged Package: libstring-tagged-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: string buffers with value tags on extents String::Tagged implements an object class, instances of which store a (mutable) string buffer that supports tags. A tag is a name/value pair that applies to some non-empty extent of the underlying string. . The types of tag names ought to be strings, or at least values that are well-behaved as strings, as the names will often be used as the keys in hashes or applied to the eq operator. . The types of tag values are not restricted - any scalar will do. This could be a simple integer or string, ARRAY or HASH reference, or even a CODE reference containing an event handler of some kind. . Tags may be arbitrarily overlapped. Any given offset within the string has in effect, a set of uniquely named tags. Tags of different names are independent. For tags of the same name, only the latest, shortest tag takes effect.