HTML::Parser->handler(event => """")

tomazos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In the POD for HTML::Parser it talks about a call as follows:

$p->handler( event => """" );

I am wondering what the quadruple double-quote is all about. Is this a typo? Should it read:

$p->handler( event => "" );

? -Andrew.

Update: When I incorrectly said pod I mean the result of "perldoc HTML::Parser" from my bash prompt that results in something resembling a man page. On that man page-like thing it has a quadruple double-quote. -Andrew.

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Re: HTML::Parser->handler(event => """")
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Aug 26, 2004 at 09:53 UTC

HTML::Parser->handler(event => """") by tomazos
In the POD for HTML::Parser it talks about a call as follows:
$p->handler( event => """" );
I am wondering what the quadruple double-quote is all about. Is this a typo?

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=item $p->handler( event => "" );
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Re: HTML::Parser->handler(event => """")
by ccn (Vicar) on Aug 26, 2004 at 09:32 UTC

I have HTML::Parser with $p->handler( event => ""); in pod

$VERSION = '3.34';  # $Date: 2003/10/27 21:19:48 $
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I'm shure that was a typo

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Re: HTML::Parser->handler(event => """")
by ambrus (Abbot) on Aug 26, 2004 at 13:02 UTC

I guess it should be only ""

I've seen some excess quotes in perldocs too. I thought they were caused by troff-incompatibilities or somesuch, but it didn't really worry me.

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Re: HTML::Parser->handler(event => """")
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 29, 2004 at 19:38 UTC

On the console (whether in a manpage or via perldoc(1)), C<> sequences are usually rendered as quotes around the contained text. I've often seen POD containing something like C<"$foo$bar"> that ends up rendering as ""$foo$bar"".

Makeshifts last the longest.

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