--- /dev/null
+##############################################################################
+# $URL: http://perlcritic.tigris.org/svn/perlcritic/trunk/Perl-Critic/lib/Perl/Critic/Utils/DataConversion.pm $
+# $Date: 2007-09-02 21:31:09 -0500 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) $
+# $Author: clonezone $
+# $Revision: 1859 $
+##############################################################################
+
+package Perl::Critic::Utils::DataConversion;
+
+use 5.006001;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Readonly;
+
+use Perl::Critic::Utils qw{ :characters :booleans };
+
+use base 'Exporter';
+
+our $VERSION = '1.088';
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Readonly::Array our @EXPORT_OK => qw(
+ boolean_to_number
+ dor
+ defined_or_empty
+);
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+sub boolean_to_number { ## no critic (RequireArgUnpacking)
+ return $_[0] ? $TRUE : $FALSE;
+}
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+sub dor { ## no critic (RequireArgUnpacking)
+ return defined $_[0] ? $_[0] : $_[1];
+}
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+sub defined_or_empty { ## no critic (RequireArgUnpacking)
+ return defined $_[0] ? $_[0] : $EMPTY;
+}
+
+1;
+
+__END__
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+=pod
+
+=for stopwords
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+Perl::Critic::Utils::DataConversion - Utilities for converting from one type of data to another.
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+Provides data conversion functions.
+
+
+=head1 IMPORTABLE SUBS
+
+=over
+
+=item C<boolean_to_number( $value )>
+
+Return 0 or 1 based upon the value of parameter in a boolean context.
+
+
+=item C<dor( $value, $default )>
+
+Return either the value or the default based upon whether the value is
+defined or not.
+
+
+=item C<defined_or_empty( $value )>
+
+Return either the parameter or an empty string based upon whether the
+parameter is defined or not.
+
+
+=back
+
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Elliot Shank <perl@galumph.com>
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Elliot Shank. All rights reserved.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license
+can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
+
+=cut
+
+# Local Variables:
+# mode: cperl
+# cperl-indent-level: 4
+# fill-column: 78
+# indent-tabs-mode: nil
+# c-indentation-style: bsd
+# End:
+# ex: set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4 tw=78 ft=perl expandtab shiftround :