NAME

Text::Original - Find original, non-quoted text in a message

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Original;
my $sentence = first_sentence($email->body);

FUNCTIONS

first_lines

first_lines($text, 20);

Returns the a number of lines after the first non blank, none quoted line of the body of the email.

It will guess at attribution lines and skip them as well.

It will return super cited lines. This is the super-citers' fault, not ours.

It won't catch all types of attribution lines;

It can optionally be passed a number of lines to get.

first_paragraph

Returns the first original paragraph of the message

first_sentence

Returns the first original sentence of the message

EXPORTS

All of the above.

AUTHOR

Richard Clamp and the Mariachi project. See http://siesta.unixbeard.net/

Packaged by Simon Cozens

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003 The Siesta Project

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