Mail::A...:String(3)

✨ Mail::A...:String β€” the Perl manpage, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, we're looking at a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and today's main character is Mail::A...:String(3). yes, that's the actual name, it's literally abbreviated like that, don't come for me πŸ’…


🌸 NAME 🌸

Mail::AuthenticationResults::Token::String β€” it's the class for modelling the parts of an AuthenticationResults Header that got detected as strings πŸŽ€

like. it's a Token, and the Token is a String. it's giving "what it says on the tin," and honestly? we love a self-aware icon πŸ’–


πŸ¦‹ VERSION πŸ¦‹

version 2.20250709

that's the number, that's the whole vibe, no notes ✨


🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Token representing a string 🫢

that's it. that's the description. short, sweet, unbothered, moisturized, in its lane πŸ‘‘


πŸ’œ AUTHOR πŸ’œ

Marc Bradshaw <marc@marcbradshaw.net> β€” the author, the legend, the one who wrote the whole thing πŸŽ€


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. 🌸

so basically: free software, do your thing, just keep the same terms as Perl 5 itself, periodt πŸ’…


fr fr, that's the entire page. no options, no flags, no exit statuses, nothing hiding in the back. just a tiny little class doing its tiny little job. and honestly? iconic behaviour ⭐

so that's the whole thing, bestie β€” no cap, that was all of it πŸ’–

this little gem ships with perl v5.42.0 and was last touched on 2025-07-25 β€” sending love to whoever maintains it, mwah πŸ«ΆπŸŽ€πŸ’œ

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