PPIx::EditorTools::FindVariableDeclaration - Finds where a variable was declared using PPI
version 0.21
# finds declaration of variable at cursor my $declaration = PPIx::EditorTools::FindVariableDeclaration->new->find( code => "package TestPackage;\nuse strict;\nBEGIN { \$^W = 1; }\nmy \$x=1;\n\$x++;" line => 5, column => 2, ); my $location = $declaration->element->location;
Finds the location of a variable declaration.
Constructor. Generally shouldn't be called with any arguments.
Accepts either a PPI::Document to process or a string containing the code (which will be converted into a PPI::Document) to process. Searches for the variable declaration and returns a PPIx::EditorTools::ReturnObject with the declaration (PPI::Statement::Variable) available via the element accessor.
PPI::Document
PPIx::EditorTools::ReturnObject
PPI::Statement::Variable
element
Croaks with a "no token" exception if no token is found at the location. Croaks with a "no declaration" exception if unable to find the declaration.
This class inherits from PPIx::EditorTools. Also see App::EditorTools, Padre, and PPI.
PPIx::EditorTools
Steffen Mueller smueller@cpan.org
smueller@cpan.org
Mark Grimes mgrimes@cpan.org
mgrimes@cpan.org
Ahmad M. Zawawi <ahmad.zawawi@gmail.com>
Gabor Szabo <gabor@szabgab.com>
Yanick Champoux <yanick@cpan.org>
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.
To install PPIx::EditorTools, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm PPIx::EditorTools
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install PPIx::EditorTools
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.