Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken#
text-tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser
SYNOPSIS#
(See Pod::Simple::PullParser)
DESCRIPTION#
When you do $parser->get_token on a Pod::Simple::PullParser, you might get an object of this class.
This is a subclass of Pod::Simple::PullParserToken and inherits all its methods, and adds these methods:
$token->text
This returns the text that this token holds. For example, parsing C<foo> will return a C start-token, a text-token, and a C end-token. And if you want to get the “foo” out of the text-token, call
$token->text$token->text(somestring)
This changes the string that this token holds. You probably won’t need to do this.
$token->text_r()
This returns a scalar reference to the string that this token holds. This can be useful if you don’t want to memory-copy the potentially large text value (well, as large as a paragraph or a verbatim block) as calling $token->text would do.
Or, if you want to alter the value, you can even do things like this:
for ( ${ $token->text_r } ) { # Aliases it with $_ !! s/ The / the /g; # just for example if( 'A' eq chr(65) ) { # (if in an ASCII world) tr/\xA0/ /; tr/\xAD//d; } ...or however you want to alter the value... (Note that starting with Perl v5.8, you can use, e.g., my $nbsp = chr utf8::unicode_to_native(0xA0); s/$nbsp/ /g; to handle the above regardless if it's an ASCII world or not) }
You’re unlikely to ever need to construct an object of this class for yourself, but if you want to, call Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken->new( _text_ )
SEE ALSO#
Pod::Simple::PullParserToken, Pod::Simple, Pod::Simple::Subclassing
SUPPORT#
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This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, perl-pod/pod-simple. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone perl-pod/pod-simple.git and send patches!
Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org.
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS#
Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.