PPIx::EditorTools::Lexer(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     PPIx::EditorTools::Lexer(3pm)

NAME

       PPIx::EditorTools::Lexer - Simple Lexer used for syntax highlighting

SYNOPSIS

	 PPIx::EditorTools::Lexer->new->lexer(
	       code => "package TestPackage;
sub x { 1;
",
	       highlighter => sub {
		       my ( $css, $row, $rowchar, $len ) = @_;
		       ...
	       },
	     );

DESCRIPTION

       Go over the various interesting elements of a give piece of code or an already process PPI tree.  For each token call the user supplied
       'highlighter' function with the follow values:

	 $css	  - The keyword that can be used for colouring.
	 $row	  - The row number where the token starts
	 $rowchar - The character within that row where the token starts
	 $len	  - The length of the token

METHODS

       new()
	   Constructor. Generally shouldn't be called with any arguments.

       find( ppi => PPI::Document $ppi, highlighter => sub {...} ) =item find( code => Str $code, highlighter => sub ...{} )
	   Accepts either a "PPI::Document" to process or a string containing the code (which will be converted into a "PPI::Document") to
	   process.  Return a reference to an array.

SEE ALSO

       This class inherits from "PPIx::EditorTools".  Also see App::EditorTools, Padre, and PPI.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-11					     PPIx::EditorTools::Lexer(3pm)