Pod::Simple::PullParserToken -- tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser

NAME

Pod::Simple::PullParserToken -- tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser

SYNOPSIS

Given a $parser that's an object of class Pod::Simple::PullParser (or a subclass)...

  while(my $token = $parser->get_token) {
    $DEBUG and print STDERR "Token: ", $token->dump, "\n";
    if($token->is_start) {
      ...access $token->tagname, $token->attr, etc...
    } elsif($token->is_text) {
      ...access $token->text, $token->text_r, etc...
    } elsif($token->is_end) {
      ...access $token->tagname...
    }
  }

(Also see the Pod::Simple::PullParser manpage)

DESCRIPTION

When you do $parser->get_token on a the Pod::Simple::PullParser manpage, you should get an object of a subclass of Pod::Simple::PullParserToken.

Subclasses will add methods, and will also inherit these methods:

$token->type
This returns the type of the token. This will be either the string ``start'', the string ``text'', or the string ``end''.

Once you know what the type of an object is, you then know what subclass it belongs to, and therefore what methods it supports.

Yes, you could probably do the same thing with code like $token->isa('Pod::Simple::PullParserEndToken'), but that's not so pretty as using just $token->type, or even the following shortcuts:

$token->is_start
This is a shortcut for $token->type() eq "start"

$token->is_text
This is a shortcut for $token->type() eq "text"

$token->is_end
This is a shortcut for $token->type() eq "end"

$token->dump
This returns a handy stringified value of this object. This is useful for debugging, as in: 
  while(my $token = $parser->get_token) {
    $DEBUG and print STDERR "Token: ", $token->dump, "\n";
    ...
  }

SEE ALSO

My subclasses: the Pod::Simple::PullParserStartToken manpage, the Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken manpage, and the Pod::Simple::PullParserEndToken manpage.

the Pod::Simple::PullParser manpage and the Pod::Simple manpage

SUPPORT

Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the pod-people@perl.org mail list. Send an empty email to pod-people-subscribe@perl.org to subscribe.

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::PullParserToken -- tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser