- File.pm: add "append_to_file"

- perl_checker: a few more stricter rules

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/MDK/Common.pm.pl b/MDK/Common.pm.pl
index 304ea49..b5e7f6e 100644
--- a/MDK/Common.pm.pl
+++ b/MDK/Common.pm.pl
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 
 
 print <<'EOF';
+package MDK::Common;
+
 =head1 NAME
 
 MDK::Common - miscellaneous functions
@@ -55,7 +57,6 @@ modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
 
 =cut
 
-package MDK::Common;
 
 use MDK::Common::DataStructure qw(:all);
 use MDK::Common::File qw(:all);
diff --git a/MDK/Common/File.pm b/MDK/Common/File.pm
index 413dfa6..208fd1c 100644
--- a/MDK/Common/File.pm
+++ b/MDK/Common/File.pm
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ array context it returns the lines
 
 creates a file and outputs the list (if the file exists, it is clobbered)
 
+=item append_to_file(FILENAME, LIST)
+
+add the LIST at the end of the file
+
 =item output_p(FILENAME, LIST)
 
 just like C<output> but creates directories if needed
@@ -101,7 +105,7 @@ L<MDK::Common>
 
 use vars qw(@ISA %EXPORT_TAGS @EXPORT_OK);
 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
-@EXPORT_OK = qw(dirname basename cat_ cat__ output output_p linkf symlinkf renamef mkdir_p rm_rf cp_af touch all glob_ substInFile expand_symlinks openFileMaybeCompressed catMaybeCompressed);
+@EXPORT_OK = qw(dirname basename cat_ cat__ output output_p append_to_file linkf symlinkf renamef mkdir_p rm_rf cp_af touch all glob_ substInFile expand_symlinks openFileMaybeCompressed catMaybeCompressed);
 %EXPORT_TAGS = (all => [ @EXPORT_OK ]);
 
 sub dirname { local $_ = shift; s|[^/]*/*\s*$||; s|(.)/*$|$1|; $_ || '.' }
@@ -109,6 +113,7 @@ sub basename { local $_ = shift; s|/*\s*$||; s|.*/||; $_ }
 sub cat_ { local *F; open F, $_[0] or return; my @l = <F>; wantarray ? @l : join '', @l }
 sub cat__ { my ($f) = @_; my @l = <$f>; wantarray ? @l : join '', @l }
 sub output { my $f = shift; local *F; open F, ">$f" or die "output in file $f failed: $!\n"; print F foreach @_ }
+sub append_to_file { my $f = shift; local *F; open F, ">>$f" or die "output in file $f failed: $!\n"; print F foreach @_ }
 sub output_p { my $f = shift; mkdir_p(dirname($f)); output($f, @_) }
 sub linkf    { unlink $_[1]; link    $_[0], $_[1] }
 sub symlinkf { unlink $_[1]; symlink $_[0], $_[1] }