NAME

Template::Sandbox::StringFunctions - Basic string functions library for Template::Sandbox.

SYNOPSIS

use Template::Sandbox::StringFunctions qw/:all/;

# or:

use Template::Sandbox::StringFunctions;

my $template = Template::Sandbox->new(
    library => [ Template::Sandbox::StringFunctions => qw/ucfirst uc lc/ ],
    );

DESCRIPTION

Library of basic string manipulation functions for easy import into a Template::Sandbox template.

EXPORTABLE TEMPLATE FUNCTIONS

lc( string )
uc( string )

Provides access to the lc() and uc() Perl functions.

lcfirst( string | array )
ucfirst( string | array )

Provides access to the lcfirst() and ucfirst() functions in Perl, with the added feature that they can operate over an array of strings to set each in turn.

substr( string, offset, length )

Behaves like Perl's substr() except all three arguments are mandatory.

length( string )

In case you don't like using string.__size__ or size( string ), you can use the "more Perlish" length( string ).

possessive( string )

Turns the noun string into a possessive noun as per English's grammar, ie: "Duncan" becomes "Duncan's" but "James" becomes "James'".

EXPORTABLE GROUPS

:all

Exports all defined template functions in this library.

KNOWN ISSUES AND BUGS

There's not really a great many functions in here, the module could be regarded as largely superfluous since you could easily recreate it yourself if you needed it. However it provides a useful example of how to write your own library of template functions.

SEE ALSO

Template::Sandbox, Template::Sandbox::Library

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Template::Sandbox::StringFunctions

You can also look for information at:

AUTHORS

Original author: Sam Graham <libtemplate-sandbox-perl BLAHBLAH illusori.co.uk>

Last author: $Author: illusori $

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005-2010 Sam Graham, all rights reserved.

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