Pod::Simple::LinkSection(3perl)               Perl Programmers Reference Guide


NAME
       Pod::Simple::LinkSection -- represent "section" attributes of L codes

SYNOPSIS
        # a long story

DESCRIPTION
       This class is not of interest to general users.

       Pod::Simple uses this class for representing the value of the "section"
       attribute of "L" start-element events.  Most applications can just use
       the normal stringification of objects of this class; they stringify to
       just the text content of the section, such as "foo" for "L<Stuff/foo>",
       and "bar" for "L<Stuff/bI<ar>>".

       However, anyone particularly interested in getting the full value of
       the treelet, can just traverse the content of the treeleet
       @$treelet_object.  To wit:

         % perl -MData::Dumper -e
           "use base qw(Pod::Simple::Methody);
            sub start_L { print Dumper($_[1]{'section'} ) }
            __PACKAGE__->new->parse_string_document('=head1 L<Foo/bI<ar>baz>>')
           "
       Output:
         $VAR1 = bless( [
                          '',
                          {},
                          'b',
                          bless( [
                                   'I',
                                   {},
                                   'ar'
                                 ], 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection' ),
                          'baz'
                        ], 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection' );

       But stringify it and you get just the text content:

         % perl -MData::Dumper -e
           "use base qw(Pod::Simple::Methody);
            sub start_L { print Dumper( '' . $_[1]{'section'} ) }
            __PACKAGE__->new->parse_string_document('=head1 L<Foo/bI<ar>baz>>')
           "
       Output:
         $VAR1 = 'barbaz';

SEE ALSO
       Pod::Simple

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
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       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 <git://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git> and
       send patches!

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

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
       Copyright (c) 2004 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.

AUTHOR
       Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.  But don't
       bother him, he's retired.

       Pod::Simple is maintained by:

       o   Allison Randal "allison@perl.org"

       o   Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org"

       o   David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org"

perl v5.38.2                      2024-02-11   Pod::Simple::LinkSection(3perl)