The London Perl and Raku Workshop takes place on 26th Oct 2024. If your company depends on Perl, please consider sponsoring and/or attending.

NAME

App::TextWrapUtils - Utilities related to text wrapping

VERSION

This document describes version 0.007 of App::TextWrapUtils (from Perl distribution App-TextWrapUtils), released on 2023-04-13.

DESCRIPTION

This distributions provides the following command-line utilities:

Keywords: fold.

FUNCTIONS

textunwrap

Usage:

textunwrap(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta]

Unwrap (unfold) multiline paragraphs to single-line ones.

This is a shortcut for:

% textwrap -w 999999

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • backend => perl::modname (default: "Text::ANSI::Util")

    (No description)

  • filename => filename (default: "-")

    Use dash (-) to read from stdin.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata.

Return value: (any)

textunwrap_clipboard

Usage:

textunwrap_clipboard(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta]

Unwrap (unfold) multiline paragraphs in clipboard to single-line ones.

This is shortcut for something like:

% clipget | textunwrap ... | clipadd

where clipget and clipadd are utilities to get text from clipboard and set text of clipboard, respectively.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • backend => perl::modname (default: "Text::ANSI::Util")

    (No description)

  • clipboard_manager => str

    Explicitly set clipboard manager to use.

    The default, when left undef, is to detect what clipboard manager is running.

  • tee => bool

    If set to true, will also print result to STDOUT.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata.

Return value: (any)

textwrap

Usage:

textwrap(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta]

Wrap (fold) paragraphs in text using one of several Perl modules.

Paragraphs are separated with two or more blank lines.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • backend => perl::modname (default: "Text::ANSI::Util")

    (No description)

  • filename => filename (default: "-")

    Use dash (-) to read from stdin.

  • width => posint (default: 80)

    (No description)

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata.

Return value: (any)

textwrap_clipboard

Usage:

textwrap_clipboard(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta]

Wrap (fold) paragraphs in text in clipboard using one of several Perl modules.

This is shortcut for something like:

% clipget | textwrap ... | clipadd

where clipget and clipadd are utilities to get text from clipboard and set text of clipboard, respectively.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • backend => perl::modname (default: "Text::ANSI::Util")

    (No description)

  • clipboard_manager => str

    Explicitly set clipboard manager to use.

    The default, when left undef, is to detect what clipboard manager is running.

  • tee => bool

    If set to true, will also print result to STDOUT.

  • width => posint (default: 80)

    (No description)

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata.

Return value: (any)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-TextWrapUtils.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-TextWrapUtils.

SEE ALSO

Text::Wrap, Text::ANSI::Util and other backends.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2023, 2022 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

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

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-TextWrapUtils

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.