---
name: "Text::PDF::Array"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libtext-pdf-perl"
version: "0.31-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Text::PDF::Array"
---

# Text::PDF::Array(3pm)

Corresponds to a PDF array. Inherits from PDF::Objind

## NAME

Text::PDF::Array - Corresponds to a PDF array. Inherits from PDF::Objind

## INSTANCE VARIABLES

This object is not an array but an associative array containing the array of elements. Thus, there are special instance variables for an array object, beginning with a space

- var

  Contains the actual array of elements

## METHODS

### PDF::Array-\>new($parent, @vals)

Creates an array with the given storage parent and an optional list of values to initialise the array with.

### $a-\>outobjdeep($fh, $pdf)

Outputs an array as a PDF array to the given filehandle.

### $a-\>removeobj($elem)

Removes all occurrences of an element from an array.

### $a-\>elementsof

Returns a list of all the elements in the array. Notice that this is not the array itself but the elements in the array.

### $a-\>add\_elements

Appends the given elements to the array. An element is only added if it is defined.

### $a-\>val

Returns the value of the array, this is a reference to the actual array containing the elements.

### $d-\>copy($inpdf, $res, $unique, $outpdf, %opts)

Copies an object. See **Text::PDF::Objind::Copy()** for details