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package Perl::ToPerl6::Utils::Perl;
use 5.006001;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Exporter 'import';
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
our @EXPORT_OK = qw(
    symbol_without_sigil
);
our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
    all => \@EXPORT_OK,
);
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
sub symbol_without_sigil {
    my ($symbol) = @_;
    (my $without_sigil = $symbol) =~ s< \A [\$@%*&] ><>xms;
    return $without_sigil;
}
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1;
__END__
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=pod
=for stopwords
=head1 NAME
Perl::ToPerl6::Utils::Perl - Utility functions for dealing with Perl language issues.
=head1 SYNOPSIS
    use Perl::ToPerl6::Utils::Perl qw< :all >;
    my $name = symbol_without_sigil('$foo');    # $name is "foo".
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This handles various issues with Perl, the language, that aren't necessarily
L<PPI|PPI> related.
=head1 INTERFACE SUPPORT
This is considered to be a public module.  Any changes to its
interface will go through a deprecation cycle.
=head1 IMPORTABLE SUBROUTINES
=over
=item C<symbol_without_sigil( $symbol )>
Returns the name of the specified symbol with any sigil at the front.
The parameter can be a vanilla Perl string or a L<PPI::Element|PPI::Element>.
=back
=head1 AUTHOR
Elliot Shank <perl@galumph.com>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Elliot Shank.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The full text of this license
can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
=cut
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