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NAME

Text::OutputFilter - Filter and modify output

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::OutputFilter;

  my $bucket = "";
  tie *STDOUT, "Text::OutputFilter";
  tie *HANDLE, "Text::OutputFilter", 4;
  tie *HANDLE, "Text::OutputFilter", 4,  *STDOUT;
  tie *STDOUT, "Text::OutputFilter", 4, \$bucket;
  tie *OUTPUT, "Text::OutputFilter", 4,  *STDOUT, sub { "$_[0]" };

DESCRIPTION

See perldoc Text::OutputFilter or pod2man OutputFilter.pm | nroff -man.

INSTALLATION

  $ perl Makefile.PL
  $ make
  $ make test
  $ make install

Recent changes can be (re)viewed in the public GIT repository at https://github.com/Tux/Text-OutputFilter

Feel free to clone your own copy:

 $ git clone https://github.com/Tux/Text-OutputFilter Text-OutputFilter

or get it as a tgz:

 $ wget --output-document=Text-OutputFilter-git.tgz \
       https://github.com/Tux/Text-OutputFilter/archive/master.tar.gz

BUGS & TODO

format

Output from format/write is not caught. This seems to be a bug in perl itself, and is unlikely to be fixed by this module.

examples

There should be example files with both input and output shown.

AUTHOR

H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@procura.nl>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006-2023 H.Merijn Brand for PROCURA B.V.

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