in reply to Meaning of command

$ ppi_dumper 2
PPI::Document
  PPI::Statement
    PPI::Token::Symbol          '$A'
    PPI::Token::Whitespace      ' '
    PPI::Token::Operator        '=~'
    PPI::Token::Whitespace      ' '
    PPI::Token::Regexp::Transliterate   'tr\n[]d'
    PPI::Token::Structure       ';'

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