NAME

       Pod::Elemental::PerlMunger - a thing that takes a string of Perl and rewrites its documentation

VERSION

       version 0.200003

OVERVIEW

       This role is to be included in classes that rewrite the documentation of a Perl document, stripping out
       all the Pod, munging it, and replacing it into the Perl.

       The only relevant method is "munge_perl_string", which must be implemented with a different interface
       than will be exposed.

       When calling the "munge_perl_string" method, arguments should be passed like this:

         $object->munge_perl_string($perl_string, \%arg);

       $perl_string should be a character string containing Perl source code.

       %arg may contain any input for the underlying procedure.  The only key with associated meaning is
       "filename" which may be omitted.  If given, it should be the name of the file whose contents are being
       munged.

       The method will return a character string containing the rewritten and combined document.

       Classes including this role must implement a "munge_perl_string" that expects to be called like this:

         $object->munge_perl_string(\%doc, \%arg);

       %doc will have two entries:

         ppi - a PPI::Document of the Perl document with all its Pod removed
         pod - a Pod::Elemental::Document with no transformations yet performed

       This "munge_perl_string" method should return a hashref in the same format as %doc.

ATTRIBUTES

   replacer
       The replacer is either a method name or code reference used to produces PPI elements used to replace
       removed Pod.  By default, it is "replace_with_nothing", which just removes Pod tokens entirely.  This
       means that the line numbers of the code in the newly-produced document are changed, if the Pod had been
       interleaved with the code.

       See also "replace_with_comment" and "replace_with_blank".

       If no further code follows the Pod being replaced, "post_code_replacer" is used instead.

   post_code_replacer
       This attribute is used just like "replacer", and defaults to its value, but is used for building
       replacements for Pod removed after the last hunk of code.  The idea is that if you're only concerned
       about altering your code's line numbers, you can stop replacing stuff after there's no more code to be
       affected.

METHODS

   replace_with_nothing
       This method returns nothing.  It's the default "replacer".  It's not very interesting.

   replace_with_comment
       This replacer replaces removed Pod elements with a comment containing their text.  In other words:

         =head1 A header!

         This is great!

         =cut

       ...is replaced with:

         # =head1 A header!
         #
         # This is great!
         #
         # =cut

   replace_with_blank
       This replacer replaces removed Pod elements with vertical whitespace of equal line count.  In other
       words:

         =head1 A header!

         This is great!

         =cut

       ...is replaced with five blank lines.

AUTHOR

       Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

       •   Christopher J. Madsen <perl@cjmweb.net>

       •   Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

       •   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Ricardo SIGNES.

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

perl v5.20.2                                       2015-07-17                    Pod::Elemental::PerlMunger(3pm)