Mail::A...::Token(3)

💖 NAME 💖

ok so bestie, this is Mail::AuthenticationResults::Token — the base class for modelling AuthenticationResults Header parts. it's giving "parent class energy" fr fr. 🎀

it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, iykyk.

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✨ VERSION ✨

this one's rocking version 2.20250709 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically these are the classes that represent a tokenised Authentication Results Header, and they're what gets used during parsing. that's the whole vibe. 🌸

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👑 METHODS 👑

🌟 new( $header, $args )

returns a brand new Token object, parsed out of the $header string you handed it, using $args to do the work. ✨

the values inside $args totally depend on which subclass of Token you're rolling with. the possible types are:

• Mail::AuthenticationResults::Token::Assignment — an assignment operator
• Mail::AuthenticationResults::Token::Comment — a comment
• Mail::AuthenticationResults::Token::QuotedString — a quoted string
• Mail::AuthenticationResults::Token::Separator — a separator
• Mail::AuthenticationResults::Token::String — a string

pick your fighter, no cap. 🫶

🌈 new_from_value( $value )

makes you a shiny new token out of the $value you pass in. iconic behaviour honestly.

⭐ value()

hands you back the value of the current Token instance. that's it, that's the whole job. 😌

🎀 remainder()

gives you the leftover chunk of the header string — like, everything still sitting there after the current token got parsed out of it. the little leftovers, the crumbs, the remainder. 🍓

💜 parse()

runs the parser on the current $header and sets up both value() and remainder(). it's the main character of this whole operation ngl.

🔥 is()

returns the type of token we are. a little identity check. a vibe check, if you will. 💅

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Marc Bradshaw <marc@marcbradshaw.net> — shoutout to the legend himself 👑

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🌸 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌸

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Marc Bradshaw.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. 🫶

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ok bestie that's the whole page!! this one was documented with perl v5.42.0 and dated 2025-07-25, and it's Mail::A...::Token(3) all day long. mwah, slay, periodt 💖✨🎀