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.