PPI::Statement::Compound - Describes all compound statements
# A compound if statement if ( foo ) { bar(); } else { baz(); } # A compound loop statement foreach ( @list ) { bar($_); }
PPI::Statement::Compound isa PPI::Statement isa PPI::Node isa PPI::Element
PPI::Statement::Compound objects are used to describe all current forms of compound statements, as described in perlsyn.
PPI::Statement::Compound
This covers blocks using if, unless, for, foreach, while, and continue. Please note this does not cover "simple" statements with trailing conditions. Please note also that "do" is also not part of a compound statement.
if
unless
for
foreach
while
continue
# This is NOT a compound statement my $foo = 1 if $condition; # This is also not a compound statement do { ... } until $condition;
PPI::Statement::Compound has a number of methods in addition to the standard PPI::Statement, PPI::Node and PPI::Element methods.
The type method returns the syntactic type of the compound statement.
type
There are four basic compound statement types.
The 'if' type includes all variations of the if and unless statements, including any 'elsif' or 'else' parts of the compound statement.
'if'
'elsif'
'else'
The 'while' type describes the standard while and until statements, but again does not describes simple statements with a trailing while.
'while'
The 'for' type covers the C-style for loops, regardless of whether they were declared using 'for' or 'foreach'.
'for'
'foreach'
The 'foreach' type covers loops that iterate over collections, regardless of whether they were declared using 'for' or 'foreach'.
All of the compounds are a variation on one of these four.
Returns the simple string 'if', 'for', 'foreach' or 'while', or undef if the type cannot be determined.
undef
- Write unit tests for this package
See the support section in the main module.
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
Copyright 2001 - 2011 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.