Pod::Simple::LinkSection(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Pod::Simple::LinkSection(3pm)

# [NAME](#NAME)

Pod::Simple::LinkSection -- represent "section" attributes of L codes

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
 # a long story
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

This class is not of interest to general users.

Pod::Simple uses this class for representing the value of the "section" attribute of "L" start-element events. Most applications can just use the normal stringification of objects of this class; they stringify to just the text content of the section, such as "foo" for "L<Stuff/foo>", and "bar" for "L<Stuff/bI<ar>>".

However, anyone particularly interested in getting the full value of the treelet, can just traverse the content of the treeleet @$treelet\_object. To wit:

```
  % perl -MData::Dumper -e
    "use base qw(Pod::Simple::Methody);
     sub start_L { print Dumper($_[1]{'section'} ) }
     __PACKAGE__->new->parse_string_document('=head1 L<Foo/bI<ar>baz>>')
    "
Output:
  $VAR1 = bless( [
                   '',
                   {},
                   'b',
                   bless( [
                            'I',
                            {},
                            'ar'
                          ], 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection' ),
                   'baz'
                 ], 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection' );
```

But stringify it and you get just the text content:

```
  % perl -MData::Dumper -e
    "use base qw(Pod::Simple::Methody);
     sub start_L { print Dumper( '' . $_[1]{'section'} ) }
     __PACKAGE__->new->parse_string_document('=head1 L<Foo/bI<ar>baz>>')
    "
Output:
  $VAR1 = 'barbaz';
```

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

Pod::Simple

# [SUPPORT](#SUPPORT)

Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the pod-people@perl.org mail list. Send an empty email to pod-people-subscribe@perl.org to subscribe.

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, &lt;https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/&gt;. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone &lt;https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git&gt; and send patches!

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to &lt;bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org&gt;.

# [COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS](#COPYRIGHT_AND_DISCLAIMERS)

Copyright (c) 2004 Sean M. Burke.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke &lt;sburke@cpan.org&gt;. But don't bother him, he's retired.

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

- Allison Randal "allison@perl.org"
- Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org"
- David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org"

2026-10-27 perl v5.44.0

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