Parse::Pidl::NDR(3)
π Parse::Pidl::NDR β the NDR parsing info generator bestie π
okay so you're looking at Parse::Pidl::NDR(3) from the Perl manual pages, and honestly? it's a tiny page but it's doing something kinda iconic. it's the NDR parsing information generator β that's the whole name, that's the whole vibe. β¨
πΈ DESCRIPTION πΈ
so here's the tea: this module returns a table that describes the order in which the parts of an element should be parsed. that's it. that's the job. it's giving "quietly essential" and honestly we love that for it. π
and the table can be made of different level types, which are:
POINTERπ«°ARRAYπSUBCONTEXTπ¦SWITCHπDATAπ
those are your possible level types, no more no less, periodt. π
β¨ AUTHOR β¨
this masterpiece was written by Jelmer Vernooij β you can reach him at jelmer@samba.org. shoutout to the icon who made it happen π«Ά
okay bestie that's genuinely the whole page, short and sweet like a lil snack π and just so you have the receipts: this was rendered from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-09-09, and it belongs to the Parse::Pidl::NDR(3) manual. go forth and parse, iykyk π
π¦ where this page comes from
- fedora 44: samba-pidl 2:4.24.7-1.fc44 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms