NAME

String::Palindrome - Determine if a string is a palindrome

VERSION

version 1.02

SYNOPSIS

use String::Palindrome qw/ is_palindrome /;


#  Simple strings

my $is     = 'abccba';
my $is_not = 'abcdef';

is_palindrome( $is      );  # 1

is_palindrome( $is_not  );  # 0

is_palindrome( {a => 1} );  # undef
is_palindrome(          );  # undef



#  Arrays

my @is     = qw/ a ab cc ab a /;
my @is_not = qw/ a ab cc a ba /;

is_palindrome(  @is     );  # 1
is_palindrome( \@is     );  # 1

is_palindrome(  @is_not );  # 0
is_palindrome( \@is_not );  # 0

is_palindrome( []       );  # undef

EXPORTS

  • is_palindrome

FUNCTIONS

is_palindrome

Returns true if the string, array_ref, or array is a palindrome. If more than one parameter is passed to the function, then it will blindly assume that you want to treat them as an array to be tested. This means that you could, theoretically, pass in a palindrome of array_refs and it would still pass.

If only one arg is passed, then it is first checked to see if it is an array ref. If it is an array ref it is treated as a normal array. If it is a simple scalar, then it is treated as a string. If it is any other type of ref, then undef is returned. Additionally, a blank array ref also returns undef.

AUTHOR

Adam Lesperance <lespea@gmail.com>

SUPPORT

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

perldoc String::Palindrome

Websites

Bugs

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-string-palindrome at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=String-Palindrome. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Adam Lesperance.

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