NAME

       PPIx::EditorTools::Lexer - Simple Lexer used for syntax highlighting

VERSION

       version 0.21

SYNOPSIS

         PPIx::EditorTools::Lexer->new->lexer(
               code => "package TestPackage;\nsub x { 1;\n",
               highlighter => sub {
                       my ( $css, $row, $rowchar, $len ) = @_;
                       ...
               },
             );

DESCRIPTION

       Go over the various interesting elements of a give piece of code or an already process PPI
       tree.  For each token call the user supplied 'highlighter' function with the follow
       values:

         $css     - The keyword that can be used for colouring.
         $row     - The row number where the token starts
         $rowchar - The character within that row where the token starts
         $len     - The length of the token

METHODS

       new()
           Constructor. Generally shouldn't be called with any arguments.

       find( ppi => PPI::Document $ppi, highlighter => sub {...} )
       find( code => Str $code, highlighter => sub ...{} )
           Accepts either a "PPI::Document" to process or a string containing the code (which
           will be converted into a "PPI::Document") to process.  Return a reference to an array.

SEE ALSO

       This class inherits from "PPIx::EditorTools".  Also see App::EditorTools, Padre, and PPI.

AUTHORS

       •   Steffen Mueller "smueller@cpan.org"

       •   Mark Grimes "mgrimes@cpan.org"

       •   Ahmad M. Zawawi <ahmad.zawawi@gmail.com>

       •   Gabor Szabo  <gabor@szabgab.com>

       •   Yanick Champoux <yanick@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2017, 2014, 2012 by The Padre development team as listed in
       Padre.pm..

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.