Badger...nstants(3pm)

👑 Badger::Constants — the constants module for other Badger modules 💖

okay so bestie, this is Badger::Constants from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it is literally the little glue module that defines constants for all the other Badger modules. iykyk. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Badger::Constants 'HASH';

if (ref $something eq HASH) {
    # rejoice!  No need to quote the word 'HASH'
}

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This module defines a bunch of constants that other Badger modules use, and you can pull them into your own namespace by naming them as options on the use Badger::Constants statement:

use Badger::Constants 'HASH';
print HASH;   # HASH

OR, if you want a whole lil bundle of them, you can name one of the tagset identifiers instead and it'll import a different set of constants:

use Badger::Constants ':types';
print HASH;   # HASH

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🦋 EXPORTABLE CONSTANTS 🦋

💅 CONSTANTS

Set to Badger::Constants. yes that's the whole vibe.

💅 SCALAR

The literal word SCALAR, typically used for testing references.

if (ref $data eq SCALAR) {
    ...
}

💅 ARRAY

The literal word ARRAY, typically used for testing references.

if (ref $data eq ARRAY) {
    ...
}

💅 HASH

The literal word HASH, typically used for testing references.

if (ref $data eq HASH) {
    ...
}

💅 CODE

The literal word CODE, typically used for testing references.

if (ref $data eq CODE) {
    ...
}

💅 GLOB

The literal word GLOB, typically used for testing references.

if (ref $data eq GLOB) {
    ...
}

💅 REGEX

The literal word Regexp, typically used for testing references.

if (ref $data eq REGEX) {
    ...
}

💅 FALSE

A false value (0). nope energy. 🙈

💅 TRUE

A true value (1). yes energy. ✨

💅 OFF

A generic flag used to disable things (0).

💅 ON

A generic flag used to enable things (1).

💅 ALL

The literal string all.

💅 NONE

The literal string none.

💅 DEFAULT

The literal string default.

💅 WARN

The literal string warn.

💅 LAST

The value -1, used to index the last item in an array. chef's kiss for grabbing the final element 🍓

$array[LAST];

💅 CRLF

An unambiguous carriage return and newline sequence: "\015\012"

💅 PKG

An alias for the :: symbol used to delimiter Perl packages. Typically used to construct symbol references.

use Badger::Constants 'PKG';
use constant EXAMPLE => 'EXAMPLE';

my $var = ${ $pkg.PKG.EXAMPLE };   # same as: ${"${pkg}::EXAMPLE"}

💅 DOT

An alias for a dot ..

💅 REFS

The literal string refs. Typically used like so:

no strict REFS;

💅 ONCE

The literal string once. Typically used like so:

no warnings ONCE;

💅 BLANK

An empty string. How much more blank could this be? And the answer is none. None more blank. iconic behaviour honestly 💀

💅 SPACE

A single space character. Not to be confused with the three dimensional fabric of reality that it happens to share a name with. (yes really, that's the actual warning, do not get it twisted 🌌)

💅 SLASH

A forward slash as used to separate path segments in URIs and filesystem paths on sane operating systems. / we love her 💜

💅 DELIMITER

A regular expression used to split whitespace delimited tokens. Also accepts commas with optional trailing whitespace as a delimiter.

$names = [ split DELIMITER, $names ]
    unless ref $names eq ARRAY;

💅 WILDCARD

A regular expression used to match strings containing the "*" or "?" wildcard characters.

if ($path =~ WILDCARD) {
    # do something...
}

💅 UTF8

The literal string utf8.

💅 JSON

The literal string json.

💅 YAML

The literal string yaml.

💅 LOADED

Contains the literal string BADGER_LOADED. The Badger::Class module uses it to define the $BADGER_LOADED variable in any modules that it loads. main character variable energy fr fr.

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🎀 EXPORTABLE TAG SETS 🎀

The following tag sets and associated constants are defined:

🌈 :types

SCALAR HASH ARRAY CODE REGEX

🌈 :values

FALSE TRUE OFF ON ALL NONE DEFAULT

🌈 :all

All the constants. every single one. the whole squad. periodt. 👑

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Andy Wardley <http://wardley.org/>

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🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

See Badger::Exporter for more information on exporting variables.

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and that's the tea bestie 🫶 this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-28 — mwah, slay, go import some constants 💅✨