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6 Pod::Elemental::Selectors - predicates for selecting elements
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9 version 0.103005
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12 Pod::Elemental::Selectors provides a number of routines to check for
13 Pod::Elemental paragraphs with given qualities.
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16 Selectors are predicates: they examine paragraphs and return either
17 true or false. All the selectors have (by default) names like:
18 "s_whatever". They expect zero or more parameters to affect the
19 selection. If these parameters are given, but no paragraph, a callback
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23 For example, the "s_command" selector expects a parameter that can be
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28 my $selector = s_command('head1');
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31 # just check a paragraph right now:
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33 if ( s_command('head1', $paragraph) ) { ... }
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35 The selectors can be imported individually or as the "-all" group, and
36 can be renamed with Sub::Exporter features. (Selectors cannot yet be
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39 s_blank
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42 if( s_blank($para) ) { ... }
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44 "s_blank" tests whether a paragraph is a Generic::Blank element.
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49 if( s_flat($para) ) { ... }
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51 "s_flat" tests whether a paragraph does Pod::Elemental::Flat -- in
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54 s_node
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57 if( s_node($para) ) { ... }
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59 "s_node" tests whether a paragraph does Pod::Elemental::Node -- in
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62 s_command
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64 my $callback = s_command( $command_name);
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67 if( s_command(undef, \$para) ) { ... }
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70 if( s_command(\@command_names, \$para) ) { ... }
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72 "s_command" tests whether a paragraph does Pod::Elemental::Command. If
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78 Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
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81 This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Ricardo SIGNES.
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83 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
84 the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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