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Comment-Spell-0.001004
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/ Comment::Spell

NAME

Comment::Spell - Spell Checking for your comments

VERSION

0.001004

SYNOPSIS

Comment::Spell is a work-a-like for Perl Comments similar to Pod::Spell.

It offers no in-built spell checking services, merely streamlines extracting tokens to pass to a spell checker of your choice, while removing some basic useful items (stop-words).

It also, by default, ignores comments with two or more leading hashes so to avoid directive comments like those found in Perl::Critic


            

              
              
# Shorthand for CLI
perl -MComment::Spell -e 'Comment::Spell->new->parse_from_file(q[Foo.pm])' | spell -a
# Advanced Usage:
my $speller = Comment::Spell->new();
$speller->parse_from_file(q[Foo.pm]); # streams words to spell to STDOUT by default
$speller->parse_from_filehandle( $myfh ); # again to STDOUT
$speller->set_output_file('out.txt');
$speller->parse_from_file(q[Foo.pm]); # Now writes to out.txt
my $str;
$speller->set_output_string($str);
$speller->parse_from_file(q[Foo.pm]); # Now writes to $str

new


            

              
              
->new(
  stopwords         => A Pod::Wordlist instance
  output_filehandle => A IO Handle ( default is STDOUT )
)

output_filehandle

The file handle to write to.

See "set_output_filehandle", "set_output_string" and "set_output_file"

set_output_filehandle


            

              
              
->set_output_filehandle( $fh );
->set_output_filehandle( \*STDOUT );

set_output_string


            

              
              
my $str;
->set_output_string( $str ); # will write to $str

set_output_file


            

              
              
->set_output_file('./out.txt');

parse_from_file


            

              
              
->parse_from_file('./in.pm'); # Read in.pm and stream tokens to current FH

parse_from_filehandle


            

              
              
->parse_from_filehandle( $fh ); # Slurps FH and streams its tokens to current FH

parse_from_string


            

              
              
->parse_from_string( $string ); # decode $string as a PPI document and stream its comments tokens to FH

parse_from_document

Lower level interface if you want to make PPI Objects yourself.


            

              
              
->parse_from_document( $ppi_document );

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

parse_from_file

Load a PPI::Document from a file and process it for comments

SUPPORT

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


            

              
              
perldoc Comment::Spell

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AUTHOR

Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>

Maintained by Nigel Horne, <njh at bandsman.co.uk>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This software is copyright (c) 2017-2021 by Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>.

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