Article:		Using Perl to Manage Plist Files
Subject:		Alternative solution
Date:		2005-08-01 08:03:08
From:		leeg
Just use brian d foy's Mac::PropertyList :-) It just works with XML plist files - I tried writing a version to deal with NeXT-style structish plists but it was only a bit successful.

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• Alternative solution
  2005-08-01 20:13:28  jamesreynolds [View]
  
  
  Why use Foundation?
  
  Nested values: Arrays in arrays in hashes in arrays, etc.
  
  Cocoa: If using this code proves easy enough, perhaps you'd like to use Foundation to do other things.
  
  Article 2 will go into much more Plist detail. It will be out soon.
• Alternative solution
  2005-08-02 07:17:18  leeg [View]
  
  
  For nested values, I just noted that the NeXT-style plist format is almost exactly identical to the definition of an anonymous hash, and tried to massage it until it was exactly identical ;-). Then you get infinitely nested hashes/arrays. I'm sure it's possible, but my regexp skills were not up to scratch. I agree that you can use the Foundation-based solution in the wider context of CamelBones, but then that isn't portable (e.g. if your plists are stored on a FreeBSD NFS server, you may want to run your perl on FreeBSD not Darwin/OS X). There may be some CFLite glue for Perl which could help there, but Mac::PropertyList would definitely work.