DESCRIPTION

If you parse a bbcode with Parse::BBCode "Parse::BBCode::parse" returns a parse tree of Tag objects.

METHODS

add_content

    $tag->add_content('string');

Adds 'string' to the end of the tag content.

    $tag->add_content($another_tag);

Adds $another_tag to the end of the tag content.

raw_text

    my $bbcode = $tag->raw_text;

Returns the raw text of the parse tree, so all tags are converted back to bbcode.

raw_content

    my $bbcode = $tag->raw_content;

Returns the raw content of the tag without the opening and closing tags. So if you have tag that was parsed from

    [i]italic and [bold]test[/b][/i]

it will return

    italic and [bold]test[/b]

walk

Utility to do a breadth first search ('bfs') over the parsed tree.

    $tag->walk('bfs', sub {
            # tag is in $_
            ...
            return 0;
        });

When the sub returns 1 it stops walking the tree. Useful for finding a certain tag.

ACCESSORS

The accessors of a tag are currently

    name attr attr_raw content finished start end close class

You can call each accessor with "get_*" and "set_*"

name

The tag name. for "[i]...[/i]" it is "i", the lowercase tag name.

attr

TODO

attr_raw

The raw text of the attribute

content

An arrayref of the content of the tag, each element either a string or a tag itself.

finished

Used during parsing, true if the end of the tag was found.

start

The original start string, e.g. '"[size=7]"'

end

The original end string, e.g. '"[/size]"'

close

True if the tag needs a closing tag. A tag which doesn't need a closing tag is "[*]" for example, inside of "[list]" tags.

class

'block', 'inline' or 'url'

single

If this tag does not have a closing tag and also no content, like [hr], for example, set this to true. Default is 0.

num

Absolute number of tag with this name in the tree. Useful if you want to number code tags and offer download links.

level

Level of tag

For the tag [u] in the following bbcode

    [b]bold [i]italic [u]underlined[/u][/i][/b]

it returns 3.