PPI::Transform::UpdateCopyright(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation PPI::Transform::UpdateCopyright(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

PPI::Transform::UpdateCopyright - Demonstration PPI::Transform class

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
  my $transform = PPI::Transform::UpdateCopyright->new(
      name => 'Adam Kennedy'
  );
  
  $transform->file('Module.pm');
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

**PPI::Transform::UpdateCopyright** provides a demonstration of a typical PPI::Transform class.

This class implements a document transform that will take the name of an author and update the copyright statement to refer to the current year, if it does not already do so.

# [METHODS](#METHODS)

## [new](#new)

```
  my $transform = PPI::Transform::UpdateCopyright->new(
      name => 'Adam Kennedy'
  );
```

The "new" constructor creates a new transform object for a specific author. It takes a single "name" parameter that should be the name (or longer string) for the author.

Specifying the name is required to allow the changing of a subset of copyright statements that refer to you from a larger set in a file.

## [name](#name)

The "name" accessor returns the author name that the transform will be searching for copyright statements of.

# [TO DO](#TO_DO)

\- May need to overload some methods to forcefully prevent Document objects becoming children of another Node.

# [SUPPORT](#SUPPORT)

See the support section in the main module.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

Copyright 2009 - 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::Transform::UpdateCopyright(3pm) from perl-ppi 1.291-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/Perl-Critic/PPI