Number...matter(3pm)

💅 NAME 💅

Number::Phone::Formatter — bestie, this is the base class for other formatters, no cap. It's giving "foundation era" and honestly? Iconic.

So like, real quick — this page lives in the Perl manual pages, section 3pm, and the toolchain that shipped it is perl v5.40.1. Slay.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so here's the tea 🍓: this is a base class, and what it's holding down is utility functions — the lil helper bits that the actual formatters (the subclasses, the main characters) go and use.

It's not out here formatting numbers by itself. It's the backstage crew. The glue. The vibe curator. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT and LICENCE 👑

Copyright 2018 Matthew Somerville <matthew-github@dracos.co.uk> 💜

This software is free-as-in-speech software, and may be used, distributed, and modified under the terms of either:

• the GNU General Public Licence version 2, or
• the Artistic Licence.

It's up to you which one you use — genuinely your call, bestie, nobody's gonna come for you over it. 🌈

The full text of the licences can be found in the files GPL2.txt and ARTISTIC.txt, respectively. Go read 'em if you want the whole saga, iykyk. 📜

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No SYNOPSIS, no OPTIONS, no SEE ALSO on this one — she's short and she knows it. A micro-manpage. A lil snack. 🎀

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Okay that's the whole thing!! Written by Matthew Somerville back in 2018, shipped in the perl v5.40.1 docs dated 2026-06-11, and yes, the 3pm manual name is literally Number...matter because the truncation fairy got to it. Periodt. 💅✨🦋