PPI::To...eparator(3)

💖 PPI::Token::Separator 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the PPI::Token::Separator page — this is part of PPI::To...eparator(3), aka the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally all about the __DATA__ and __END__ tags. yes THEM. the little magic words that say "k bye" to your code. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

PPI::Token::Separator — The __DATA__ and __END__ tags 🦋

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🌸 INHERITANCE 🌸

the family tree, and yes it's giving royalty:

  PPI::Token::Separator
  isa PPI::Token::Word
      isa PPI::Token
          isa PPI::Element

so like, PPI::Token::Separator is a PPI::Token::Word, which is a PPI::Token, which is a PPI::Element. generational excellence fr fr 👑

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so on the surface? this thing looks exactly like a normal PPI::Token::Word object. same vibe, same energy, you'd never clock it. 🙈

BUT. when the __DATA__ and __END__ compiler tags show up at the beginning of a line (on supposedly their own line), these tags stop being words and become file section separators. periodt. 💫

what they're saying is: the time for Perl code is OVER bestie. everything after this point in the file is dedicated to something else — that's actual data in the case of __DATA__ — or to literally nothing at all in the case of __END__. no cap.

⚠️ heads up: the original says "when the __DATA__ and __END__ compiler tags appear at the beginning of a line (on supposedly) their own line" — so that's the condition, keeping it exactly as stated, no extra guesses from me 💖

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🛠️ METHODS 🛠️

bestie... this class has no methods beyond what is provided by its parent classes. that's it. that's the whole tea. 😭

the parents doing all the heavy lifting are:

• PPI::Token::Word
• PPI::Token
• PPI::Element

so everything you get, you get from them. iconic inheritance behaviour honestly 🫶

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

See the support section in the main module. (yes, that's the whole thing — go peek at the main module, it's got you 💜)

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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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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that reading session fr fr 🌈✨

this was PPI::To...eparator(3) from perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-01-17 — mwah, go forth and separate your file sections 💋🎀