CSS::Parser::Regexp - a regexp-based CSS parser with at-rule support

SYNOPSIS

use CSS::Parser::Regexp;
use Data::Dumper;

$\ = "\n";

my $css = <<CSS
.someclass {
    color: limegreen;
    font-size: 12pt;
}
CSS
;

my $p = CSS::Parser::Regexp->new;

$p->parse($css);

print Dumper($p->rules);

print Dumper($p->to_tree);

print $p->stringify;

DESCRIPTION

This module parses CSS with at-rules into rule lists or trees, and stringifies it back

FUNCTIONS

new

my $p = CSS::Parser::Regexp->new;

Creates a new CSS::Parser::Regexp instance.

parse

$p->parse($css);

Parses a CSS string. Returns the CSS::Parser::Regexp object.

rules

my $rules = $p->parse($css)->rules

Returns the list of parsed rules as an arrayref.

stringify

my $rules = $p->parse($css)->stringify

Returns the list of parsed rules stringified into CSS.

to_tree

my $rules = $p->parse($css)->to_tree

Returns the list of parsed rules as a tree of hashrefs

TO DO

• better sorting of rules in stringify
• documenting the rule list and tree structures
• functionality for adding/removing rules

SEE ALSO

• CSS
• CSS::DOM
• CSS::Tiny

BUGS and CAVEATS

This module is tested against Bootstrap, Normalize.css and Pure.css. I don't know if there is gnarly CSS out there that this module fails against.

AUTHORS

Simone Cesano scesano@cpan.org

CREDITS

For testing purposes, this distribution includes files from Bootstrap, Pure.css and Normalize.css.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Simone Cesano.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.