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.IX Title "News::Scan::Thread 3pm"
.TH News::Scan::Thread 3pm "2021-01-08" "perl v5.32.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
News::Scan::Thread \- keep track of threads in a Usenet newsgroup
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\&    use News::Scan::Thread;
\&
\&    my $thr = News::Scan::Thread\->new($news_scan_article_obj);
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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This module provides a class whose objects can be used to keep track
of threads of discussion in a Usenet newsgroup.
.SH "CONSTRUCTOR"
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.IP "new ( \s-1ARTICLE\s0 )" 4
.IX Item "new ( ARTICLE )"
\&\f(CW\*(C`ARTICLE\*(C'\fR should be a \f(CW\*(C`News::Scan::Article\*(C'\fR object or an object of some
class derived from \f(CW\*(C`News::Scan::Article\*(C'\fR.
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\&\f(CW\*(C`new\*(C'\fR performs some initialization and returns a \f(CW\*(C`News::Scan::Thread\*(C'\fR.
.SH "METHODS"
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.IP "subject" 4
.IX Item "subject"
Returns this thread's subject.
.IP "volume" 4
.IX Item "volume"
Returns the volume in bytes generated in this thread.
.IP "articles" 4
.IX Item "articles"
Returns the number of posts to this thread.
.IP "header_volume" 4
.IX Item "header_volume"
Returns the volume in bytes of the headers in this thread's articles.
.IP "header_lines" 4
.IX Item "header_lines"
Returns the number of header lines in this thread's articles.
.IP "body_volume" 4
.IX Item "body_volume"
Returns the volume in bytes of the message bodies of this thread's articles.
.IP "body_lines" 4
.IX Item "body_lines"
Returns the number of lines in this thread's message bodies.
.IP "orig_volume" 4
.IX Item "orig_volume"
Returns the volume in bytes of the original content of this thread's articles.
.IP "orig_lines" 4
.IX Item "orig_lines"
Returns the number of original lines in this thread's articles.
.IP "sig_volume" 4
.IX Item "sig_volume"
Returns the volume in bytes of the signatures of this thread's articles.
.IP "sig_lines" 4
.IX Item "sig_lines"
Returns the number of signature lines in this thread's articles.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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News::Scan, News::Scan::Article
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Bacon.  All Rights Reserved.
This library is free software.  You may distribute and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.