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NAME

Sword - provides an interface to the Sword Open Source Bible Software API

VERSION

version 0.102800

SYNOPSIS

use Sword;
use List::Util qw( first );

my $library = Sword::Manager->new;

print "Your library contains:\n\n";
for my $module (sort { $a->type cmp $b->type } @{ $library->modules }) {
    print "    ", $module->type, ": ", $module->name, " - ", 
	  $module->description, "\n";
}

print "\n";

# Try a preferred list of Bibles...
my $bible = $library->get_module('ESV')
         || $library->get_module('KJV');

# Or find any Bible...
$bible = first { $_->type eq 'Biblical Texts' } @{ $library->modules };

if ($bible) {
    $bible->set_key('John 3:16'); # can us abbrevs, like jn3.16
    my $verse = $bible->render_text;
    print "John 3:16: $verse\n";
}

else {
    print "No Bible was found in your library. You may need to open your Sword software to install one.\n";
}

print "\n\n";

my $dict = $library->get_module('WebstersDict');
if ($dict) {
    $dict->set_key('dictionary');
    my $description = $dict->description;
    print "According to $description:\n\n";
    print $dict->render_text, "\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

EXPERIMENTAL. The goal is to reproduce the Sword Engine API in Perl. This is really just the first foray into that direction. It simply provides just enough to do what's shown in the "SYNOPSIS" and perhaps a bit more. Future versions should do more, but the Perl API may change in the process, so be sure to check the Changes file for each release for API compatibility.

This module exists for convenience and does nothing more than load the most commonly needed modules:

BUGS

  • This almost certainly leaks memory. I need to work on that.

  • This library does not yet cover very much of what the Sword API is capable of.

SEE ALSO

Sword::Manager, Sword::Module.

Sword Project: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp

AUTHOR

Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp <hanenkamp@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Qubling Software LLC.

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