---
name: "PPI::Transform::UpdateCopyright"
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::Transform::UpdateCopyright"
---

# PPI::Transform::UpdateCopyright(3pm)

Demonstration PPI::Transform class

## NAME

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

## SYNOPSIS

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

  $transform->file('Module.pm');
```

## 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

### 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

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

## TO DO

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

## SUPPORT

See the support section in the main module.

## AUTHOR

Adam Kennedy \<adamk@cpan.org\>

## 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.