PPI::To...eEngine(3)

💖 PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine — The PPI Quote Engine 💖

okay bestie, so this is PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine, and it lives inside the Perl documentation for us (manual page PPI::To...eEngine(3), yes the name got chopped, that's just how it is). Let's get into it 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine package is designed to hold functionality for processing quotes and quote-like operators, including regexes 💅. These have special requirements in parsing, and honestly? They're a whole vibe of their own.

The PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine package itself provides various parsing methods, which PPI::Token::Quote, PPI::Token::QuoteLike and PPI::Token::Regexp can inherit from. So in that sense, it serves as a base class — it's giving founding mother energy fr fr 👑

🎀 Using this class 🎀

⚠️ Heads up: this refers only to internal uses. This class does not provide a public interface. Not for you, bestie, it's backstage only 🙈

To use these, you should initialize them as normal $Class->new, and then call the fill method, which will cause the specialised parser to scan forwards and parse the quote to its end point. No cap, that's the whole move ✨

If ->fill returns true, finalise the token. Periodt. 💅

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🌸 SUPPORT 🌸

See the support section in the main module. (iykyk — go check the main one, it's all there 🦋)

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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!! 🎀 this one came from perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-01-17 — so like, iconic documentation from the future, we love to see it 💖✨🦋 slay!