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#      $URL: http://perlcritic.tigris.org/svn/perlcritic/trunk/Perl-Critic/lib/Perl/Critic/Policy/ValuesAndExpressions/ProhibitEmptyQuotes.pm $
#     $Date: 2008-07-03 10:19:10 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jul 2008) $
#   $Author: clonezone $
# $Revision: 2489 $
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package Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitEmptyQuotes;

use 5.006001;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Readonly;

use Perl::Critic::Utils qw{ :severities };
use base 'Perl::Critic::Policy';

our $VERSION = '1.088';

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Readonly::Scalar my $EMPTY_RX => qr{\A ["|'] \s* ['|"] \z}mx;
Readonly::Scalar my $DESC     => q{Quotes used with an empty string};
Readonly::Scalar my $EXPL     => [ 53 ];

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub supported_parameters { return ()                    }
sub default_severity     { return $SEVERITY_LOW         }
sub default_themes       { return qw(core pbp cosmetic) }
sub applies_to           { return 'PPI::Token::Quote'   }

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub violates {
    my ( $self, $elem, undef ) = @_;
    if ( $elem =~ $EMPTY_RX ) {
        return $self->violation( $DESC, $EXPL, $elem );
    }
    return;    #ok!
}

1;

__END__

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

=pod

=head1 NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitEmptyQuotes - Write C<q{}> instead of C<''>.

=head1 AFFILIATION

This Policy is part of the core L<Perl::Critic> distribution.


=head1 DESCRIPTION

Don't use quotes for an empty string or any string that is pure whitespace.
Instead, use C<q{}> to improve legibility.  Better still, created named values
like this.  Use the C<x> operator to repeat characters.

  $message = '';      #not ok
  $message = "";      #not ok
  $message = "     "; #not ok

  $message = q{};     #better
  $message = q{     } #better

  $EMPTY = q{};
  $message = $EMPTY;      #best

  $SPACE = q{ };
  $message = $SPACE x 5;  #best


=head1 CONFIGURATION

This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.


=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitNoisyStrings>

=head1 AUTHOR

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <thaljef@cpan.org>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer.  All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The full text of this license
can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

=cut

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