NAME

Moot::Waste::Lexicon - libmoot : WASTE tokenizer : simple word-list lexicon

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use Moot::Waste;
##=====================================================================
## Moot::Waste::Lexicon
$lexer = Moot::Waste::Lexer->new();   ##-- parent lexer object
$lex = $lexer->abbrevs();             ##-- embedded lexicon
$lex = $lexer->stopwords();           ##-- embedded lexicon
$lex = $lexer->conjunctions();        ##-- embedded lexicon
##---------------------------------------------------------------------
## Basic Access
$lex->clear();                       ##-- delete all entries
$lex->insert($str);                  ##-- insert a string
$n    = $lex->size();                        ##-- get number of entries
$bool = $lex->lookup($str);          ##-- check for membership
##---------------------------------------------------------------------
## I/O
$lex->load($reader);                 ##-- load from Moot::TokenReader object
$lex->load($filename);               ##-- load from named file (1 word/line)
$lex->load($fh);                     ##-- load from filehandle (1 word/line)
##---------------------------------------------------------------------
## Batch Import/Export
$lex   = $lex->from_array(\@words);  ##-- load from perl array
$words = $lex->to_array($isutf8=0);  ##-- dump to perl array
            
          

DESCRIPTION

The Moot::Waste::Lexicon module provides an object-oriented interface to the simple word-list lexica used by the WASTE tokenization system. It can ONLY be accessed by means of an embedding Moot::Waste::Lexer.

SEE ALSO

Moot(3perl), Moot::Waste(3perl), Moot::Waste::Lexer(3perl), waste(1), perl(1).

AUTHOR

Bryan Jurish <moocow@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2013 by Bryan Jurish

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.14.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.