PPI::To...:Version(3)

💖 PPI::To...:Version(3) — User Contributed Perl Documentation 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the PPI::Token::Number::Version era 🎀 this is a page from the Perl docs (the "User Contributed Perl Documentation" corner of the internet, iykyk) and we're about to make it make sense.

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✨ NAME ✨

PPI::Token::Number::Version — the token class for a byte-packed number 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

  $n = 1.1.0;
  $n = 127.0.0.1;
  $n = 10_000.10_000.10_000;
  $n = v1.2.3.4

look at her go 🦋 multiple dots in a number, and somehow it's still legal. iconic behaviour, no cap.

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👑 INHERITANCE 👑

  PPI::Token::Number::Version
  isa PPI::Token::Number
      isa PPI::Token
          isa PPI::Element

it's giving royal lineage — she's a PPI::Token::Number, which is a PPI::Token, which is a PPI::Element. whole family tree is eating 💖

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so the PPI::Token::Number::Version class is the one that handles tokens with multiple decimal points. 🍓

and here's the tea, bestie: in truth, these aren't treated like numbers at all by Perl. not even a little. 🙈 but they look like numbers to a parser, and honestly? the vibe check is what matters. she's serving number energy for the parser's sake, periodt. 💅

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✨ METHODS ✨

🎀 base

Returns the base for the number: 256. that's it, that's the method. slay. 🌈

🎀 literal

Return the numeric value of this token. straightforward, no notes. ⭐

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💀 BUGS 💀

ngl there are some issues here, and we're keeping it real:

• Does not handle leading minus sign correctly. Should translate to a DashedWord. See <http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=574573>

  -95.0.1.0  --> "-_\000\cA\000"
  -96.0.1.0  --> Argument "`\0^A\0" isn't numeric in negation (-)

bestie that second one is genuinely cursed 😭 the leading minus is not getting the glow-up it deserves.

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

See the support section in the main module. (go check the main module, she's got the whole support situation handled 💖)

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org> — king behaviour, we appreciate you 👑

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright 2006 Chris Dolan.

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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and that's the whole page, bestie 💅 this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-01-17, and it lives at PPI::To...:Version(3) — go forth and parse those multi-dotted numbers with main character energy ✨🦋💖