Data::Pager - flexible data pager

       Vidul Nikolaev Petrov, vidul@cpan.org

       What BUGS?

new
        my $pager = Data::Pager->new({
          current => 1,      # this is the current pager position
          perpage => 10,     # the pager consists of this number of links (defaults to 10)
          offset  => 5,      # this is the number of results (fetched from the DB for example) per result
          limit   => 100,    # how far is the pager allowed
        });

        # sample output from html table:

        id ... ..... ...
        1. ... ..... ...
        2. ... ..... ...
        3. ... ..... ...
        4. ... ..... ...
        5. ... ..... ...

        1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

       Returns object or undef if current position is beyond the limit.

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

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.40.1                                       2025-03-08                                   Data::Pager(3pm)

       This class implements the familiar pager where the current position is centered.

current
        $pager->current();

       Returns the current pager position.

   set_current($digit)
        $pager->set_current(850);
        $pager->set_current(850)->next();

       Sets the current pager position.  Returns the pager object on succes, undef on false.

   next
       Returns the next pager position or undef if this is the last one.

   prev
       Returns the previous pager position or undef if this is the first one.

   start
       Returns 1 - the start pager position.

   end
       Returns the end pager position.

   first
       Returns the first pager position for this result set.

   last
       Returns the last pager position for this result set.

   from
         '1' => {
           'to' => 5,
           'next' => 2,
           'prev' => undef,
           'from' => 0
         },
         '2' => {
           'to' => 10,
           'next' => 3,
           'prev' => 1,
           'from' => 5
         },
         ...

       Returns the start result this pager position refers to.

   to
       Returns the end result this pager position refers to.

   list
        @_ = $pager->list;
        $_ = $pager->list;

       Returns the pager links for this result set.  In list context returns the resulting list.  In scalar
       context returns reference to the resulting list.

        # note the alignment

        $pager->set_current(10);
        print $pager->list;         # 6 7 8 9  [10]  11 12 13 14 15
        $pager->set_current(33);
        print $pager->list;         # 28 29 30 31 32 [33] 34 35 36 37 38

       Data::Pager - flexible data pager

       Data::Page

         use Data::Pager;

         my $pager = Data::Pager->new({
           current => 100,
           perpage => 10,
           offset  => 5,
           limit   => 2000,
         });

         #~ accessors:
         $pager->current; # 100
         $pager->next;    # 101
         $pager->prev;    # 99
         $pager->limit;   # 2000
         $pager->start;   # 1 # not typical start of a programmer
         $pager->final;   # \
                             # 400 (which denotes 2000 / 5 pager links)
         $pager->end;     # /
         $pager->from;    # 495 (may serve in SQL LIMIT clause)
         $pager->to;      # 500 (may serve in SQL LIMIT clause)
         $pager->list;    # 95  96  97  98  99  100  101  102  103  104  105