PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter(3pm)

PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter3pm

Represent the delimiters of the regular expression

Usage

 use PPIx::Regexp::Dumper;
 PPIx::Regexp::Dumper->new( 'qr{foo}smx' )
     ->print();

Inheritance

"PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter" is a PPIx::Regexp::Token::Structure.

"PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter" has no descendants.

Overview

This token represents the delimiters of the regular expression. Since the tokenizer has to figure out where these are anyway, this class is used to give the lexer a hint about what is going on.

Methods

This class provides no public methods beyond those provided by its superclass.

perl_version_introduced

Experimentation with weird delimiters shows that they did not actually work until Perl 5.8.3, so we return '5.008003' for such delimiters.

perl_version_removed

Perl 5.29.0 made fatal the use of non-standalone graphemes as regular expression delimiters. Because non-characters and permanently unassigned code points are still allowed per perldeprecation, I take this to mean characters that match "/\p{Mark}/" (i.e. combining diacritical marks). But this regular expression does not compile under Perl 5.6.

So:

This method returns '5.029' for such delimiters provided the requisite regular expression compiles. Otherwise it return "undef".

Support

Support is by the author. Please file bug reports at <https://github.com/trwyant/perl-PPIx-Regexp/issues> or in electronic mail to the author.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

Author

Thomas R. Wyant, III harryfmudd at comcast dot net

From perl-ppix-regexp 0.092-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.