PPI::Token::BOM - Tokens representing Unicode byte order marks
PPI::Token::BOM isa PPI::Token isa PPI::Element
This is a special token in that it can only occur at the beginning of documents. If a BOM byte mark occurs elsewhere in a file, it should be treated as PPI::Token::Whitespace. We recognize the byte order marks identified at this URL: http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM
UTF-32, big-endian 00 00 FE FF UTF-32, little-endian FF FE 00 00 UTF-16, big-endian FE FF UTF-16, little-endian FF FE UTF-8 EF BB BF
Note that as of this writing, PPI only has support for UTF-8 (namely, in POD and strings) and no support for UTF-16 or UTF-32. We support the BOMs of the latter two for completeness only.
The BOM is considered non-significant, like white space.
There are no additional methods beyond those provided by the parent PPI::Token and PPI::Element classes.
See the support section in the main module
Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>
Copyright 2001 - 2009 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
To install PPI, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm PPI
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install PPI
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.