NAME

Text::Context - Handle highlighting search result context snippets

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Context;

my $snippet = Text::Context->new($text, @keywords);

$snippet->keywords("foo", "bar"); # In case you change your mind

print $snippet->as_html;
print $snippet->as_text;

DESCRIPTION

Given a piece of text and some search terms, produces an object which locates the search terms in the message, extracts a reasonable-length string containing all the search terms, and optionally dumps the string out as HTML text with the search terms highlighted in bold.

new

Creates a new snippet object for holding and formatting context for search terms.

keywords

Accessor method to get/set keywords. As the context search is done case-insensitively, the keywords will be lower-cased.