Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken -- text-tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser

NAME

Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken -- text-tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser

SYNOPSIS

(See the Pod::Simple::PullParser manpage)

DESCRIPTION

When you do $parser->get_token on a the Pod::Simple::PullParser manpage, you might get an object of this class.

This is a subclass of the Pod::Simple::PullParserToken manpage 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

the Pod::Simple::PullParserToken manpage, the Pod::Simple manpage, the Pod::Simple::Subclassing manpage

SUPPORT

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This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone git://github.com/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.

AUTHOR

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>. But don't bother him, he's retired.

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

 Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken -- text-tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser