NAME¶
Text::Quoted - Extract the structure of a quoted mail message
SYNOPSIS¶
use Text::Quoted;
my $structure = extract($text);
DESCRIPTION¶
"Text::Quoted" examines the structure of some text which may contain
multiple different levels of quoting, and turns the text into a nested data
structure.
The structure is an array reference containing hash references for each
paragraph belonging to the same author. Each level of quoting recursively adds
another list reference. So for instance, this:
> foo
> # Bar
> baz
quux
turns into:
[
[
{ text => 'foo', quoter => '>', raw => '> foo' },
[
{ text => 'Bar', quoter => '> #', raw => '> # Bar' }
],
{ text => 'baz', quoter => '>', raw => '> baz' }
],
{ empty => 1 },
{ text => 'quux', quoter => '', raw => 'quux' }
];
This also tells you about what's in the hash references: "raw" is the
paragraph of text as it appeared in the original input; "text" is
what it looked like when we stripped off the quotation characters, and
"quoter" is the quotation string.
CREDITS¶
Most of the heavy lifting is done by a modified version of Damian Conway's
"Text::Autoformat".
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Kasei Limited Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Simon Cozens
Copyright (C) 2004 Best Practical Solutions, LLC
This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.