5 Goalfile - introduction, tutorial, and reference for writing goal files
15 =head2 Standard Functions
17 =head3 basename (path)
21 basename ("dir/file.ext") ⇒ "file.ext"
23 Returns the filename part of the path.
29 dirname ("dir/file.ext") ⇒ "dir"
31 Returns the directory part of the path.
33 =head3 extension (filename)
37 extension ("dir/file.ext") ⇒ "ext"
39 Returns the filename extension.
41 =head3 join (list1, list2)
45 join (["a", "b"], ["c", "d"]) ⇒ ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
47 Concatenate C<list1> and C<list2>. It's not usually necessary to use
48 this function since goals automatically flattens lists within lists
49 into simple lists in many cases.
51 =head3 realpath (filename)
55 realpath ("./tests") ⇒ "/home/user/tests"
57 Run the L<realpath(1)> command to return the resolved absolute path of
58 the C<filename> parameter.
64 sort (["c", "b", "b", "a"]) ⇒ ["a", "b", "c"]
66 This takes a list of strings and sorts it, removing duplicates.
68 =head3 subst (from, to, text)
72 subst ("aa", "AA", "aabbccaa") ⇒ "AAbbccAA"
73 subst ("a.*c", "b", "aaacac") ⇒ "bb"
75 This function works something like make’s C<subst> function, except
76 that C<from> is a regular expression, specifically a L<sed(1)>
77 extended regular expression.
79 =head3 wildcard (pattern)
83 wildcard ("*.c") ⇒ ["bar.c", "foo.c"]
85 The single parameter is a wildcard which is expanded into a list of
86 files using ordinary globbing rules.
88 =head3 wrap (wrapper, list)
92 wrap ("*file", ["bar.c", "foo.c"]) ⇒ [*file("bar.c"), *file("foo.c")]
94 Each element in C<list> is wrapped into a call to C<wrapper(element)>.
95 There are two common uses for this: either to add explicit tactics
96 (such as C<*file>) to a plain list of strings as in the example above;
97 or to turn a list of strings into a list of goal or function calls.
105 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
109 Copyright (C) 2020 Richard W.M. Jones
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