NAME

Text::Lorem::JA - Japanese Lorem Ipsum generator

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Lorem::JA;


# Generated text are represented in Perl internal format (Unicode).
binmode \*STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';


my $lorem = Text::Lorem::JA->new();


# Generate a string of text with 10 characters.
print $lorem->word(10), "\n";
# => 好きな強みとを考えて


# Generate a string of text with 10 tokens.
print $lorem->words(10), "\n";
# => 主要な素質にしばしばあるまいまではっきりつかまえる


# Generate a string of text with 3 sentences.
# Invoking via class methods are also allowed.
print Text::Lorem::JA->sentences(3), "\n";
# => いちばん面白いいい方をはっきりさせない会社があっても、
#    やがてかわって、許されない。人物の生きている、ほこり、
#    品位のあらわれである。文明社会は、正しくそういう立場に
#    いながら、求めて一塊の岩礁に膠着してみる。

DESCRIPTION

Text::Lorem::JA generates fake Japanese text via Markov chain.

METHODS

Most of instance methods can be called as class methods. Generated strings are in Perl's internal format (Unicode).

• new

    $lorem = Text::Lorem::JA->new();
    $lorem = Text::Lorem::JA->new( dictionary => ..., chains => ... );
  

  Creates a new Text::Lorem::JA generator object.

  Can specify dictionary file and chains for generating sentences.

• word

    $word = $lorem->word($length);
  

  Returns a exact given $length string.

  Argument length represents number of Unicode characters. Not bytes.

• words

    $words = $lorem->words($number_of_morphems);
  

  Generates a string composed from morphemes of given number.

  At Japanese language, words are not delimited by whitespaces in normal style.

• sentence

    $sentence = $lorem->sentence();
  

  Generates a single sentence.

• sentences

    $sentences = $lorem->sentences($number_of_sentences);
  

  Generates sentences.

TOOL

You can use lorem_ja executable for generating Japanese Lorem text from CLI.

LICENSE

Copyright (C) ITO Nobuaki.

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

AUTHOR

ITO Nobuaki dayflower@cpan.org