new(ARG => VAL, ...)

clone => OBJ

Clone object OBJ, which must be an instance of Config::AST::Node or its derived class.

default => VAL

Sets default value.

locus => LOC

Sets the locus - an object of class Text::Locus, which see.

file => NAME

Sets the file name.

order => N

Sets ordinal number.

$x = $node->locus;

$node->locus($LOC)

$node->locus($FILE, $LINE)

$x = $node->order

$node->order($N)

$x = $node->default

$node->default($N)

$node->is_leaf

$node->is_null

$node->is_section

$node->is_value

@array = $cfg->flatten()

@array = $cfg->flatten(sort => $sort)

The $sort argument controls the ordering of the entries in the returned @array. It is either a code reference suitable to pass to the Perl sort function, or one of the following constants:

NO_SORT

Don't sort the array. Statements will be placed in an apparently random order.

SORT_NATURAL

Preserve relative positions of the statements. Entries in the array will be in the same order as they appeared in the configuration file. This is the default.

SORT_PATH

Sort by pathname.

These constants are not exported by default. You can either import the ones you need, or use the :sort keyword to import them all, e.g.:

    use Config::AST::Node qw(:sort);
    @array = $node->flatten(sort => SORT_PATH);

$cfg->canonical(%args)

    QVAR=VALUE

where QVAR is fully qualified variable name, and VALUE is the corresponding value.

For sections, canonical representation is a list of canonical representations of the underlying nodes, delimited by newlines (or another character - see the description of the delim argument, below). The list is sorted by QVAR in ascending lexicographical order.

%args are zero or more of the following keywords:

delim => STR

Use STR to delimit statements, instead of the newline.

locus => 1

Prefix each statement with its location.