Pod::S...ection(3perl) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Pod::S...ection(3perl)
NAME
Pod::Simple::LinkSection -- represent "section" attributes of L codes
SYNOPSIS
# a long story
DESCRIPTION
This class is not of interest to general users.
Pod::Simple uses this class for representing the value of the "section"
attribute of "L" start-element events. Most applications can just use
the normal stringification of objects of this class; they stringify to
just the text content of the section, such as "foo" for "L<Stuff/foo>",
and "bar" for "L<Stuff/bI<ar>>".
However, anyone particularly interested in getting the full value of the
treelet, can just traverse the content of the treeleet @$treelet_object.
To wit:
% perl -MData::Dumper -e
"use base qw(Pod::Simple::Methody);
sub start_L { print Dumper($_[1]{'section'} ) }
__PACKAGE__->new->parse_string_document('=head1 L<Foo/bI<ar>baz>>')
"
Output:
$VAR1 = bless( [
'',
{},
'b',
bless( [
'I',
{},
'ar'
], 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection' ),
'baz'
], 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection' );
But stringify it and you get just the text content:
% perl -MData::Dumper -e
"use base qw(Pod::Simple::Methody);
sub start_L { print Dumper( '' . $_[1]{'section'} ) }
__PACKAGE__->new->parse_string_document('=head1 L<Foo/bI<ar>baz>>')
"
Output:
$VAR1 = 'barbaz';
SEE ALSO
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 <https://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) 2004 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:
• Allison Randal "allison@perl.org"
• Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org"
• David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org"
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