NAME

Date::Extract::DE - Extract dates from german text

VERSION

0.0.6

SYNOPSIS

    use Date::Extract::DE;
    my $parser = Date::Extract::DE->new( reference_date => $reference_date );
    my $dates = $parser->extract($text);
    my $infos = $parser->extract_with_context($text);
    printf("%s => %s\n", $_->{context}, $_->{date}) foreach @$infos;

DESCRIPTION

This is a module to extract dates from german text (similar to Date::Extract).

METHODS

new(reference_date => $reference_date, lookback_days => $lookback_days)

Creates a new instance. Optionally, you can specify a reference Date::Simple which is used to determine the year when a date is given incompletely in the text (default is today). You can also specify a maximum numer of days to look back when an incomplete date is guessed (otherwise the closest date is used)

extract($text)

Tries to extract dates from the text and returns an arrayref of Date::Simple instances

extract_with_context($text)

Tries to extract dates from the text and returns an arrayref of HashRef instances. Each HashRef contains a key 'date' which maps to a Date::Simple instance, and a key 'context' mapping to the date string found in the original text

AUTHORS

Andreas Mager <quattro at cpan org>

Christian Eder <christian.eder@apa.at>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2020, APA-IT. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This module is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this module. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.