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Text-Beautify-0.03
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/ Text::Beautify

NAME

Text::Beautify - Beautifies text

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Beautify;

$text = "badly written text ,,you know ?"

$new_text = beautify($text);
# $new_text now holds "Badly written text, you know?"

enable_feature('repeated_punctuation'); # enables the feature
disable_feature('trailing_space');      # disables the feature

@features_enables = enabled_features();

@all_features = features();

enable_all();
disable_all();

DESCRIPTION

Beautifies text. This involves operations like squeezing double spaces, removing spaces from the beginning and end of lines, upper casing the first character in a string, etc.

You can enable / disable features with enable_feature / disable_feature. These commands return a true value if they are successful.

To know which features are beautified, see FEATURES

FEATURES

All features are enabled by default

  • heading_space

    Removes heading spaces

  • trailing_space

    Removes trailing spaces

  • double_spaces

    Squeezes double spaces

  • repeated_punctuation

    Squeezes repeated punctuation

  • space_in_front_of_punctuation

    Removes spaces in front of punctuation

  • space_after_punctuation

    Puts a spaces after punctuation

  • uppercase_first

    Uppercases the first character in the string

MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

If you're using this module, please drop me a line to my e-mail. Tell me what you're doing with it. Also, feel free to suggest new bugs^H^H^H^H^H features.

AUTHOR

Jose Alves de Castro, <cog [at] cpan [dot] org<gt>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2004 by Jose Alves de Castro

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