PPI::To...ttribute(3)

💖 PPI::To...ttribute(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the <strong>User Contributed Perl Documentation</strong> glow-up of PPI::To...ttribute(3)</strong> — this is the manual page for the PPI::Token::Attribute module and honestly it's a short one but it ate 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

PPI::Token::Attribute — a token for a subroutine attribute 🎀

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🦋 INHERITANCE 🦋

the family tree, no cap:

PPI::Token::Attribute
isa PPI::Token
    isa PPI::Element

so like. it inherits from PPI::Token, which inherits from PPI::Element. the lineage is giving royalty tbh 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so in Perl, attributes are a relatively recent addition to the language. we love a modern queen ✨

say you've got this code:

sub foo : bar(something) {}

the bar(something) part? that's the attribute. periodt 💅

a PPI::Token::Attribute token represents <strong>the entire</strong> attribute — like, all of it. because the braces and everything inside them are not parsed into the tree, and they get treated by Perl (and therefore by us too, fr fr) as a single string. no splitting, no dissecting, just one vibe 🫶

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🧚 METHODS 🧚

this class gives you some extra methods on top of the ones its PPI::Token and PPI::Element parent classes already hand over. bonus content, iykyk ✨

💜 identifier

the identifier attribute returns the identifier part of the attribute.

so like, for the attribute foo(bar), the identifier method would return foo. simple as that, slay 🌈

💜 parameters

the parameters method returns the parameter string for the attribute.

so for the attribute foo(bar), the parameters method would return bar. iconic ⭐

it returns the parameters as a string — and yes, that includes the null string '' for the case of an attribute like foo(). empty but valid, we respect it 🙈

and it returns undef if the attribute does not have parameters. no parameters? undef. that's the deal 💀

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🎀 SUPPORT 🎀

see the support section in the main module. go check the main character for the deets ✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

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

the full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

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