NAME

       PPI::Token::Quote - String quote abstract base class

INHERITANCE

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

DESCRIPTION

       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

   string
       The "string" method is provided by all four ::Quote classes. It won't get you the actual
       literal Perl value, but it will strip off the wrapping of the quotes.

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

   literal
       The "literal" method is provided by ::Quote::Literal and ::Quote::Single.  This returns
       the value of the string as Perl sees it: without the quote marks and with "\\" and "\'"
       resolved to "\" and "'".

       The "literal" method is not implemented by ::Quote::Double or ::Quote::Interpolate yet.

SUPPORT

       See the support section in the main module.

AUTHOR

       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

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

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.