---
name: "PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-ppi"
version: "1.291-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine"
---

# PPI::Token::\_QuoteEngine(3pm)

The PPI Quote Engine

## NAME

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

## 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

*(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

See the support section in the main module.

## AUTHOR

Adam Kennedy \<adamk@cpan.org\>

## 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.