in reply to Re: Programmatically Updating Code with PPI
in thread Programmatically Updating Code with PPI

Both insert_after and tokens/children seem to be broken methods (or unfinished), but I've managed to get it done using __insert_after
#!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use PPI; my $perlcode = << "END_PERLCODE"; package My::L10N::en; use base 'My::L10N'; our %Lexicon = ( 'Some [_1] text' => 'Some [_1] text', ); END_PERLCODE my $doc = PPI::Document->new(\$perlcode); my $lexicon = $doc->find_first(sub { $_[1]->content eq '%Lexicon' }); my $newmsg = q{'The [_1] is in the [_2]'}; my $newtext = sprintf qq' %s =>\n %s,\n', $newmsg, $newmsg; my $insert_this = PPI::Document->new(\$newtext); #~ use PPI::Dumper; #~ print __LINE__,"\n"; PPI::Dumper->new( $lexicon->parent )->print; #~ print __LINE__,"\n"; PPI::Dumper->new( $lexicon->parent->last_token + )->print; #~ print __LINE__,"\n"; PPI::Dumper->new( $lexicon->parent->last_token +->previous_token )->print; #~ print __LINE__,"\n"; PPI::Dumper->new( $lexicon->parent->last_token +->previous_token->previous_token )->print; #~ print __LINE__,"\n"; PPI::Dumper->new( $insert_this->find_first('St +atement') )->print; #~ print __LINE__,"\n"; PPI::Dumper->new( $insert_this->find_first('St +atement')->tokens )->print; #~ print __LINE__,"\n"; PPI::Dumper->new( $insert_this->find_first('St +atement')->children )->print; $lexicon->parent->last_token->previous_token->previous_token ->__insert_after( $insert_this); print $doc->serialize(); __END__ package My::L10N::en; use base 'My::L10N'; our %Lexicon = ( 'Some [_1] text' => 'Some [_1] text', 'The [_1] is in the [_2]' => 'The [_1] is in the [_2]', );