NAME

Text::Find::Scalar - Find scalar names in a text.

VERSION

version 0.10

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::Find::Scalar;
  
  my $finder = Text::Find::Scalar->new();
  my $arrayref = $finder->find($string);
  
  # or
  
  $finder->find($string);
  while($finder->hasNext()){
    print $finder->nextElement();
  }

DESCRIPTION

This class helps to find all scalar variables in a text. It is recommended to use PPI to parse Perl programs. This module should help to find SCALAR names e.g. in error messages.

Scalars that should be found:

• double quoted

    "$foo"

• references

    $foo->{bar}

• elements of arrays

    $array[0]

Scalars that are not covered

• single quoted

    '$foo'

EXAMPLE

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  
  use Text::Find::Scalar;
  
  my $string = q~This is a $variable
         another $variable and another "$eine", but '$no' is not found.
         A $reference->{$key} is found. An array element $array[0]
         is also found~;
  
  my $finder = Text::Find::Scalar->new();
  my @scalars = $finder->find($string);
  
  print $_,"\n" for(@scalars);

prints

  /homes/reneeb/community>find_scalar.pl
  $variable
  $variable
  $eine
  $reference->{$key}
  $array[0]

METHODS

new

  my $finder = Text::Find::Scalar->new();

creates a new Text::Find::Scalar object.

find

  my $string = q~Test $test $foo '$bar'~;
  my $arrayref = $finder->find($string);
  my @found    = $finder->find($string);

parses the text and returns an arrayref that contains all matches.

hasNext

  while($finder->hasNext()){
    print $finder->nextElement();
  }

returns 1 unless the user walked through all matches.

nextElement

  print $finder->nextElement();
  print $finder->nextElement();

returns the next element in list.

unique

  my $uniquenames = $finder->unique();

returns an arrayref with a list of all scalars, but each match appears just once.

count

  my $counter = $finder->count('$foo');

returns the number of appearances of one scalar.

AUTHOR

Renee Baecker <reneeb@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Renee Baecker.

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

cpanm Text::Find::Scalar

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Text::Find::Scalar