PPI::Token::Quote(3)

💖 PPI::Token::Quote — bestie edition 💖

ok so this is the manual page for PPI::Token::Quote, straight outta the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and honestly? it's giving "abstract base class energy" and we are OBSESSED. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

PPI::Token::Quote — the String quote abstract base class. that's the whole name bestie, it's literally right there 💅

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🌸 INHERITANCE 🌸

so the family tree is giving:

PPI::Token::Quote
isa PPI::Token
    isa PPI::Element

like, it's a PPI::Token, which is a PPI::Element. lineage? immaculate. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: the PPI::Token::Quote class is never instantiated. never ever. it just sits there being a common abstract base class for the four quote classes, like a group chat admin who never posts but keeps everything running. 🫶

in PPI, a "quote" is limited to only the quote-like things that themselves directly represent a string. (although yes, this includes double quotes with interpolated elements inside them — and note that String::InterpolatedVariables lets you extract those. iykyk ✨)

the subclasses of PPI::Token::Quote are:

• '' — PPI::Token::Quote::Single
• "q{}" — PPI::Token::Quote::Literal
• "" — PPI::Token::Quote::Double
• "qq{}" — PPI::Token::Quote::Interpolate

the names are hopefully obvious enough that we don't have to explain what each class is here, bestie. see their respective pages for more details, mwah 💋

⚠️ also please note: even though the here-doc does represent a literal string, it is such a nasty piece of work that in PPI it gets the honor of its own token class — PPI::Token::HereDoc. main character treatment fr fr. 💀👑

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💅 METHODS 💅

⭐ string

the string method is provided by all four ::Quote classes. it won't get you the actual literal Perl value, but it will strip off the wrapping of the quotes. slay. ✂️

# The following all return foo from the ->string method
'foo'
"foo"
q{foo}
qq <foo>

⭐ literal

the literal method is provided by ::Quote::Literal and ::Quote::Single. this returns the value of the string as Perl sees it: without the quote marks, and with \\ and \' resolved to \ and '. ✨

🚨 the literal method is not implemented by ::Quote::Double or ::Quote::Interpolate yet. we're waiting on it, bestie, it's not here yet 😭

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🌈 SUPPORT 🌈

see the support section in the main module. that's it, that's the whole section, go look 👀

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> — iconic, legendary, no notes 💜

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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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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was PPI::Token::Quote, served to you by perl v5.42.0 on 2026-01-17 — go forth and parse those strings, you absolute legend 💖✨🦋