Pod::S...ection(3perl)

✨ NAME ✨

Pod::Simple::LinkSection — the ✨represent "section" attributes of L codes✨ vibe, bestie

(also hey, this one lives in the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, so you know it's official 💅)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

# a long story

no literally that's the whole synopsis, it's giving mystery on purpose 🙈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so first thing first: this class is not of interest to general users. If you're just out here living your life writing POD, this is not the class for you, bestie, and that's fine 💖

But here's the tea: Pod::Simple uses this class to represent the value of the "section" attribute of "L" start-element events. Most applications can just use the normal stringification of objects of this class — and when they stringify, they give you just the text content of the section. So like, "foo" for L<Stuff/foo>, and "bar" for L<Stuff/bI<ar>>. Cute, right? ✨

However!! If you're particularly interested in getting the full value of the treelet, you 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' );

Look at that treelet. She's got structure, she's got layers, she's got a whole nested bless. Main character energy for real 👑

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?? All that gorgeous tree, and one little stringify later it's just 'barbaz'. Iconic behaviour honestly 💅

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• Pod::Simple — the parent, the blueprint, the whole reason we're here 🫶

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💜 SUPPORT 💜

Got questions? Got discussion? Got opinions about POD and Pod::Simple? Send them to the mail list at pod-people@perl.org 📬

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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 <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git> and send patches! Forking is self-care 🧚

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome (yes really, they want them 💖). Please send bug reports to <bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>.

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⭐ 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. So like, it's free, it's generous, but it does not come with promises, periodt.

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>. But don't bother him, he's retired. Respect the retirement, bestie, he's earned it 🙏

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

• Allison Randal "allison@perl.org"
• Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org"
• David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org"

absolute legends, all three 👑

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and that's the whole page fr fr 💖 this was perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17, living under the name Pod::S...ection(3perl) in the Perl Programmers Reference Guide — slay, go read some POD, ily bye 🎀