NAME

Syntax::SourceHighlight::HighlightToken - Perl class for libsource-highlight's srchilite::HighlightToken

SYNOPSIS

use Syntax::SourceHighlight;
my $hl = Syntax::SourceHighlight->new();
$hl->setHighlightEventListener(
    sub {
        my $highlight_event = shift;
        my $highlight_token = $highlight_event->{token};
        print( "Prefix: '$highlight_token->{prefix}'; tokens" );
        foreach ( @{ $highlight_token->{matched} } ) {
            m/^(.*?):(.*)$/s;
            print(" '$2' ($1)");
        }
        print("\n");
    }
);
$hl->highlightString( 'my $test = 42;', 'perl.lang' );

DESCRIPTION

This is the counterpart to the libsource-highlight's srchilite::HighlightEvent class.

The following public attributes are exported:

• prefix

• prefixOnlySpaces

• suffix

• matched (exported as an array of strings where the pair is concatenated and separated with colon)

• matchedSize

These are not implemented:

• matchedSubExps

• rule

There is no Perl constructor for this package. None of its public methods are implemented:

• copyFrom()

• clearMatched()

• addMatched()

SEE ALSO

The main documentation with examples is in the Syntax::SourceHighlight POD.