NAME

Meta::Utils::Text::Lines - library to do operations on sets of lines.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Lines.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.22

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Utils::Text::Lines qw();
my($obje)=Meta::Utils::Text::Lines->new();
$obje->set_text("mark\ndoron\n","\n");
$obje->remove_line("doron");
my($new_text)=$obje->get_text();

DESCRIPTION

This is a library to help you do things with lines of text coming from a file. Currently it supports splitting the text and removing lines and returning the text that results.

FUNCTIONS

new($)
set_text($$$)
remove_line($$)
remove_line_re($$)
remove_line_nre($$)
get_text($)
get_text_fixed($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

new($)

Gives you a new Lines object.

set_text($$$)

This will set the text that the object will work on.

remove_line($$)

This will remove a line that you know the text of.

remove_line_re($$)

This will remove all lines matching a certain regexp.

remove_line_nre($$)

This will remove all lines not matching a certain regexp.

get_text($)

This will retrieve the text currently stored in the object.

get_text_fixed($)

This method is the same as get_text except it adds the delimiter at the end if it is not there.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mark2776@yahoo.com
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/mark2776
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV fix up perl checks
0.01 MV check that all uses have qw
0.02 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
0.03 MV more on tests/more checks to perl
0.04 MV change new methods to have prototypes
0.05 MV perl code quality
0.06 MV more perl quality
0.07 MV more perl quality
0.08 MV get papers in good condition
0.09 MV perl documentation
0.10 MV more perl quality
0.11 MV perl qulity code
0.12 MV more perl code quality
0.13 MV revision change
0.14 MV languages.pl test online
0.15 MV perl packaging
0.16 MV PDMT
0.17 MV md5 project
0.18 MV database
0.19 MV perl module versions in files
0.20 MV movies and small fixes
0.21 MV thumbnail user interface
0.22 MV more thumbnail issues

SEE ALSO

Nothing.

TODO

Nothing.