Pod::A...:ptree(3pm)

✨ Pod::A...:ptree(3pm) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to Pod::A...:ptree, a lil gem from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection 🎀 it's a Pod::Abstract::Filter, and she is literally here to make your brain go "ohhh THAT's the structure" 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Pod::Abstract::Filter::ptree — she takes the incoming document, converts it into a summarised parse tree, and dumps that whole thing into a verbatim block. no cap ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is so useful when you're trying to understand the generated structure of a POD file, specifically while you're out here building your own filters or code on top of Pod::Abstract. it's giving "let me see the bones of this thing" and honestly? iconic 👑

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

$ paf ptree bin/paf

...

Parse Tree
      1 [[ROOT]]
      2   [#cut] #!/usr/bin/perl
      3   [#cut] package paf;use strict;use warnings;
      4   [#cut] use Pod::Abstract;use Pod::Abstract::Filter;
      5   [#cut] use File::Temp qw(tempfile tempdir);
      8   [head1] NAME
      9     [:paragraph]
     10       [:text] paf - Pod Abstract Filter. Transform Pod documents from t
<... etc>

see how it just lays out the whole tree for you?? number, node type, the content, all of it, right there. main character energy fr fr 🌈

ngl there's a <... etc> at the end there because there's always more tree than fits on one screen, bestie. it just keeps going 💀

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💖 METHODS 💖

🫶 filter

This is literally the only method for the module, and she keeps it simple: she just makes use of the "ptree" in Pod::Abstract::Node method to generate a visual parse tree, and then nests that right into a heading generated by Pod::Abstract::BuildNode. clean, cute, done ✨

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okay that's the whole page!! go forth and ptree responsibly, you absolute legend 💅🦋💖

and a lil sign-off moment: this page is from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-11-16, and yes that is the same name up top because she contains multitudes 🌸 mwah!