NAME
Data::DPath::Path - Abstraction for a DPath
ABOUT
Take a string description, parse it, provide frontend methods.
PUBLIC METHODS
new ( %args )
Constructor; creates instance.
Args:
- give_references
-
Default 0. If set to true value then results are references to the matched points in the data structure.
match( $data )
Returns an array of all values in $data that match the Path object.
matchr( $data )
Returns an array ref of all values in $data that match the Path object.
INTERNAL METHODS
op_match( $self, $data )
This sub/method is bound as the overloading function for ~~.
quoted
Checks whether a path part starts with quotes.
unquote
Removes surrounding quotes.
unescape
Converts backslashed characters into their non-backslashed form.
_build__steps
This method is essentially the DPath parser as it tokenizes the path into single steps whose later execution is the base functionality of the whole DPath module.
path
Attribute / accessor.
_steps
Attribute / accessor.
give_references
Attribute / accessor.
aliased classes
That's just to make Pod::Coverage happy which does not handle aliased modules.
Context
Point
Step
AUTHOR
Steffen Schwigon <ss5@renormalist.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2024 by Steffen Schwigon.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.