NAME

Locale::Maketext::Extract - Extract translatable strings from source

SYNOPSIS

my $Ext = Locale::Maketext::Extract->new;
$Ext->read_po('messages.po');
$Ext->extract_file($_) for <*.pl>;
$Ext->compile;
$Ext->write_po('messages.po');

DESCRIPTION

This module can extract translatable strings from files, and write them back to PO files. It can also parse existing PO files and merge their contents with newly extracted strings.

A command-line utility, xgettext.pl, is installed with this module as well.

Following formats of input files are supported:

Perl source files

Valid localization function names are: translate, maketext, gettext, loc, x, _ and __.

HTML::Mason

Strings inside <&|/l>...</&> and <&|/loc>...</&> are extracted.

Template Toolkit

Strings inside [%|l%]...[%END%] or [%|loc%]...[%END%] are extracted.

Text::Template

Sentences between STARTxxx and ENDxxx are extracted individually.

Generic Template

Strings inside {{...}} are extracted.

METHODS

Constructor

new

Accessors

header, set_header
lexicon, set_lexicon, msgstr, set_msgstr
entries, set_entries, entry, add_entry, del_entry
clear

PO File manipulation

read_po
write_po

Extraction

extract
extract_file

Compilation

compile
normalize_space

Lexicon accessors

msgids, has_msgid,
msgstr, set_msgstr
msg_positions, msg_variables, msg_format, msg_out

Internal utilities

_default_header
_to_gettext
_escape
_format

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Jesse Vincent for contributing to an early version of this module.

Also to Alain Barbet, who effectively re-wrote the source parser with a flex-like algorithm.

SEE ALSO

xgettext.pl, Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

AUTHORS

Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003, 2004 by Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

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

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

cpanm Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Locale::Maketext::Lexicon