Pod::Si...xtToken(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken — text-tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser, bestie 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

(See Pod::Simple::PullParser)

That's literally the whole synopsis, no cap — the real stuff lives over there 🫶

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so picture this: you're out here doing $parser->get_token on a Pod::Simple::PullParser, and sometimes what comes back at you is an object of this class. surprise!! 👑

This is a subclass of Pod::Simple::PullParserToken and it inherits, like, all of its methods — and then it adds these ones on top, because it's an overachiever 💅

• $token->text — this hands you back the text that this token is holding. for example, parsing C<foo> will return a C start-token, a text-token, and a C end-token. and if you want to get the "foo" out of the text-token? just call "$token->text" and slay ✨
• $token->text(somestring) — this changes the string that this token holds. honestly? you probably won't need to do this. lowkey it's just there 🙈
• $token->text_r() — this returns a scalar reference to the string that this token holds. super useful if you don't want to memory-copy the potentially large text value (well — as large as a paragraph or a verbatim block) the way calling $token->text would do. no wasteful copying, we love to see it 🦋

or, if you want to alter the value, you can even do things like this:

  for ( ${  $token->text_r  } ) {  # Aliases it with $_ !!

    s/ The / the /g; # just for example

    if( 'A' eq chr(65) ) {  # (if in an ASCII world)
      tr/\xA0/ /;
      tr/\xAD//d;
    }

    ...or however you want to alter the value...
    (Note that starting with Perl v5.8, you can use, e.g.,

        my $nbsp = chr utf8::unicode_to_native(0xA0);
        s/$nbsp/ /g;

    to handle the above regardless if it's an ASCII world or not)
  }

You're unlikely to ever need to construct an object of this class for yourself — like, genuinely, it's giving "not your job" — but if you want to, call "Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken->new( text )" 💫

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Pod::Simple::PullParserToken, Pod::Simple, Pod::Simple::Subclassing — go read those too, they're iconic 👑

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💌 SUPPORT 💌

Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the pod-people@perl.org mail list. Send an empty email to pod-people-subscribe@perl.org to subscribe — yes, empty, that's the whole vibe 📬

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/>. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git> and send patches! fork it bestie, it's literally open 🧚

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to <bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>. 🐛

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💀 COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS 💀

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. (so, like, no promises — use it, it's free, that's the deal 🫶)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>. But don't bother him, he's retired — respect the legend's peace and quiet, fr fr 🙏

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

• Allison Randal "allison@perl.org"
• Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org"
• David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org"

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this drop is from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03, and it's part of the Perl Programmers Reference Guide — take care of it, it's iconic 💜✨