TAP::P...omment(3perl)

✨ NAME ✨

TAP::Parser::Result::Comment — bestie, it's the Comment result token 💬

Oh and hey, this whole thing lives in the Perl Programmers Reference Guide manual pages (the 3perl girlies) 🎀

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

Version 3.52 — yes queen, she's been through some updates 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so real talk: this is a subclass of TAP::Parser::Result. That's the whole vibe. One of these tokens gets handed back to you whenever a comment line shows up. That's it, that's the job 💖

Like, if your TAP output looks like this:

1..1
ok 1 - woo hooo!
# this is a comment

…then that # this is a comment line is what spawns a token of this class. Iconic behaviour, no notes 🫶

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💜 OVERRIDDEN METHODS 💜

Not gonna lie, these are mainly listed here to shut up the pitiful screams of the pod coverage tests 😭 They keep me awake at night. Fr fr. So we list them. For the tests. Not for us.

• as_string — okay so heads up on this one: the method merely returns the comment preceded by a '# '. That's the entire plot. No extra drama, no garnish, just a # and the comment. Periodt 💅

🌈 Instance Methods 🌈

• comment — grab the comment text itself. Like so:

if ( $result->is_comment ) {
    my $comment = $result->comment;
    print "I have something to say:  $comment";
}

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That's the whole page bestie, go forth and parse those comment tokens 🧚✨

Signing off with the receipts: this is from perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17 — and yes I said what I said 💖👑