PPI::Token::\_QuoteEngine(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation PPI::Token::\_QuoteEngine(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

PPI::Token::\_QuoteEngine - The PPI Quote Engine

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

The "PPI::Token::\_QuoteEngine" package is designed hold functionality for processing quotes and quote like operators, including regexes. These have special requirements in parsing.

The "PPI::Token::\_QuoteEngine" package itself provides various parsing methods, which the PPI::Token::Quote, PPI::Token::QuoteLike and PPI::Token::Regexp can inherit from. In this sense, it serves as a base class.

## [Using this class](#Using_this_class)

*(Refers only to internal uses. This class does not provide a* *public interface)*

To use these, you should initialize them as normal '$Class->new', and then call the 'fill' method, which will cause the specialised parser to scan forwards and parse the quote to its end point.

If ->fill returns true, finalise the token.

# [SUPPORT](#SUPPORT)

See the support section in the main module.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

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.

2026-10-25 perl v5.44.0

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Document: PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine(3pm) from perl-ppi 1.291-r2 (Chainguard OS)
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