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.IX Title "Perl::Critic::Utils::Perl 3pm"
.TH Perl::Critic::Utils::Perl 3pm 2023-07-26 "perl v5.38.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
Perl::Critic::Utils::Perl \- Utility functions for dealing with Perl language issues.
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\&    use Perl::Critic::Utils::Perl qw< :all >;
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This handles various issues with Perl, the language, that aren't necessarily
PPI related.
.SH "INTERFACE SUPPORT"
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This is considered to be a public module.  Any changes to its
interface will go through a deprecation cycle.
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.IX Item "symbol_without_sigil( $symbol )"
Returns the name of the specified symbol with any sigil at the front.
The parameter can be a vanilla Perl string or a PPI::Element.
.SH AUTHOR
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Elliot Shank <perl@galumph.com>
.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2007\-2011 Elliot Shank.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The full text of this license
can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.