Pod::Simple::PullParserToken - tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser
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 Pod::Simple::PullParser)
Perl Programmers Reference Guide Pod::Simple::PullParserToken(3) 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 Pod::Simple::PullParser) DESCRIPTION When you do $parser->get_token on a Pod::Simple::PullParser, 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"; ... } ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+-----------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Availability | runtime/perl-532 | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through volatile | +---------------+-----------------------+ SEE ALSO My subclasses: Pod::Simple::PullParserStartToken, Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken, and Pod::Simple::PullParserEndToken. Pod::Simple::PullParser and Pod::Simple 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: o Allison Randal "allison@perl.org" o Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org" o David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org" NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.perl.org/. perl v5.32.0 2020-06-14 Pod::Simple::PullParserToken(3)