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PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3pm)

NAME

PPI::Token::Regexp::Match - A standard pattern match regex

INHERITANCE

  PPI::Token::Regexp::Match
  isa PPI::Token::Regexp
      isa PPI::Token
          isa PPI::Element

SYNOPSIS

  $text =~ m/match regexp/;
  $text =~ /match regexp/;

DESCRIPTION

A "PPI::Token::Regexp::Match" object represents a single match regular expression. Just to be doubly clear, here are things that are and aren't considered a match regexp. 

  # Is a match regexp
  /This is a match regexp/;
  m/Old McDonald had a farm/eieio;
  
  # These are NOT match regexp
  qr/This is a regexp quote-like operator/;
  s/This is a/replace regexp/;

METHODS

There are no methods available for "PPI::Token::Regexp::Match" beyond those provided by the parent PPI::Token::Regexp, PPI::Token and PPI::Element classes.

SUPPORT

See the support section in the main module.

AUTHOR

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

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.

2017-06-25 perl v5.24.1