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Lintian::SlidingWindow - Lintian interface to sliding window match
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Class Methods
new(HANDLE[, BLOCKSUB[, BLOCKSIZE]])
Create a new sliding window by reading from a given HANDLE, which must be open for reading.
Optionally run BLOCKSUB against each block. Note that BLOCKSUB should apply transform byte by byte
and does not depend of context.
Each window consists of up to two blocks of BLOCKSIZE characters.
Description
Lintian::SlidingWindow provides a way of matching some pattern, including multi line pattern, without
needing to fully load the file in memory.
Diagnostics
no data type specified
Instance Methods
readwindow
Return a new block of sliding window. Return undef at end of file.
"blocksize"
blocknumber
handle
blocksub
Name
Lintian::SlidingWindow - Lintian interface to sliding window match
See Also
lintian(1)
Lintian v2.122.0ubuntu1 2025-05-01 Lintian::SlidingWindow(3)
Synopsis
use Lintian::SlidingWindow;
my $sfd = Lintian::SlidingWindow->new('<','someevilfile.c', sub { $_ = lc($_); });
my $window;
while ($window = $sfd->readwindow) {
if (index($window, 'evil') > -1) {
if($window =~
m/software \s++ shall \s++
be \s++ used \s++ for \s++ good \s*+ ,?+ \s*+
not \s++ evil/xsim) {
# do something like : tag 'license-problem-json-evil';
}
}
}
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