PPI::Token::Quote3pm

Inheritance

  PPI::Token::Quote
  isa PPI::Token
      isa PPI::Element

Overview

The "PPI::Token::Quote" class is never instantiated, and simply provides a common abstract base class for the four quote classes. In PPI, a "quote" is limited to only the quote-like things that themselves directly represent a string. (although this includes double quotes with interpolated elements inside them, note that String::InterpolatedVariables allows to extract them).

The subclasses of "PPI::Token::Quote" are:

'' - PPI::Token::Quote::Single

"q{}" - PPI::Token::Quote::Literal

"" - PPI::Token::Quote::Double

"qq{}" - PPI::Token::Quote::Interpolate

The names are hopefully obvious enough not to have to explain what each class is here. See their respective pages for more details.

Please note that although the here-doc does represent a literal string, it is such a nasty piece of work that in PPI it is given the honor of its own token class (PPI::Token::HereDoc).

Methods

  # The following all return foo from the ->string method
  'foo'
  "foo"
  q{foo}
  qq <foo>

Support

See the support section in the main module.