new

$

pl

 = 
ExtUtils::Packlist->new
([

plfile

])

Constructor. Takes the name of a .packlist as the optional parameter and returns a reference to a hash that has an entry for each line in the .packlist . The value associated with each key is undef for oldstyle .packlist s. For files in the extended format, the value for each key is a hash containing the key/value pairs on the line associated with that key.