Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken -- text-tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser
(See Pod::Simple::PullParser)
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:
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
This changes the string that this token holds. You probably won't need to do this.
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 )
Pod::Simple::PullParserToken, Pod::Simple, Pod::Simple::Subclassing
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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.
Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>. But don't bother him, he's retired.
Pod::Simple is maintained by:
Allison Randal allison@perl.org
Hans Dieter Pearcey hdp@cpan.org
David E. Wheeler dwheeler@cpan.org