NAME

String::Ident - clean-up string to be used as identifier and in URLs

SYNOPSIS

    my $ident = String::Ident->cleanup('Hello wœrlď!')
    is($ident,'Hello-woerld')

DESCRIPTION

clean-up string to be used as identifier and in URLs

METHODS

cleanup()

cleanup does the following things to convert your messy string into something that you can use as an identifier:

    # replace unicode by ascii
    $text = unidecode($text);

    # replace anything basides numbers, letters and dash by dash
    $text =~ s/[^-A-Za-z0-9]/-/g;

    # one dash is enough
    $text =~ s/--+/-/g;

    # no need to start or end with a dash
    $text =~ s/-$//g;
    $text =~ s/^-//g;

    # maximum length
    $text = substr($text,0,30);

    # min length is set to 4 filled in by random letters

cleanup per default truncates the text to 30 chars. You can pass in some other limit, or -1 to not truncate:

  cleanup("some very long töxt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, ", 15);
  # 'some-very-long-toxt-'

  cleanup("some very long töxt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, ", -1);
  # 'some-very-long-toxt-Lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-consectetur-adipiscing-elit'

AUTHOR

Jozef Kutej, <jkutej at cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

The following people have contributed to the String::Ident by committing their code, sending patches, reporting bugs, asking questions, suggesting useful advises, nitpicking, chatting on IRC or commenting on my blog (in no particular order):

• Andrea Pavlovic

• Syohei YOSHIDA

• Thomas Klausner, <domm@plix.at>

THANKS

Thanks to VÖV - Verband Österreichischer Volkshochschulen for sponsoring development of this module.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.