PPI::To...p::Match(3)

💖 PPI::Token::Regexp::Match 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for PPI::Token::Regexp::Match (that's the PPI::To...p::Match(3) one, you found it, slay) ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

PPI::Token::Regexp::Match — a standard pattern match regex, no cap 🎀

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🦋 INHERITANCE 🦋

the family tree, and yes she comes from a long line of icons:

PPI::Token::Regexp::Match
isa PPI::Token::Regexp
    isa PPI::Token
        isa PPI::Element

four generations of absolute royalty, we love a lineage 💜

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole vibe in two lines:

$text =~ m/match regexp/;
$text =~ /match regexp/;

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so a PPI::Token::Regexp::Match object represents one single match regular expression. and like, just to be doubly clear (because this trips people up fr fr), here's what counts as a match regexp and what absolutely does not:

# Is a match regexp
/This is a match regexp/;
m/Old McDonald had a farm/eieio;

# These are NOT match regexp
qr/This is a regexp quote-like operator/;
s/This is a/replace regexp/;

see the difference? qr// is a quote-like operator and s/// is a replace regexp — they are not match regexps, they're their own whole thing, and this class is not claiming them 💅

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🧚 METHODS 🧚

there are no methods available for PPI::Token::Regexp::Match beyond the ones you already get from your parents — PPI::Token::Regexp, PPI::Token and PPI::Element. so like, everything is inherited, she adds nothing new, and honestly? iconic behaviour, no notes 👑

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

see the support section in the main module, bestie — that's where the help lives 🌸

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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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