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Perl-Critic-1.097_001
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NAME

Perl::Critic::Utils::Perl - Utility functions for dealing with Perl language issues.

SYNOPSIS

use Perl::Critic::Utils::Perl qw< :all >;

my $name = symbol_without_sigil('$foo');    # $name is "foo".

DESCRIPTION

This handles various issues with Perl, the language, that aren't necessarily PPI related.

INTERFACE SUPPORT

This is considered to be a public module. Any changes to its interface will go through a deprecation cycle.

IMPORTABLE SUBROUTINES

symbol_without_sigil( $symbol )

Returns the name of the specified symbol with any sigil at the front. The parameter can be a vanilla Perl string or a PPI::Element.

AUTHOR

Elliot Shank <perl@galumph.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Elliot Shank. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.