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Displays the current page of articles.

If the setting "pagesort" is "on", each page will be sorted before display.

reload

Reload articles from disk.

extract_fields_from_data DATA

To conserve memory, I have put every field into one long string. This routine breaks them back out into individual fields.

get_poster_from_idx IDX

Returns the poster name associated with IDX.

format_article_for_display ARTICLE_DATA INDEX

Formats the article data in ARTICLE_DATA into a nice string and returns it.

decode ARGS

ARGS must follow the following rules:

  * You can specify a range using a dash: 5-12
  * You can specify multiple articles using a comma or space: 5,6,7,12,13,14
  * You can use any combination of the above: 5-12 20 21 22 (5-12,20,21,22)
unique_re REGEXP [WITH <FILE>]

Specify a regular expression that matches the filenames you are interested in. Any duplicates are removed from the resultant list. As well, any filenames contained in the FILE that match the REGEXP will also be excluded from the list. This is useful when you want to complete a picture set and don't want to download a bunch of duplicates.

fresher DATE

Shows articles FRESHER than DATE, where DATE is in a MMM [DD] format...

older DATE

Same as fresher, but in reverse!

convert_plus_minus_to_source_dest_polarity

Returns two hash keys (source and destination) and a polarity (keep or remove (+ or -)).

scan

Scans through the articles and puts the current page at the specified point...

dump_list

Dump the subjects into a file.

load_main_list -> load_articles_data
load_articles_data

Load article data from files in the articles directory.

exists_articles_data

Actually returns the number of article files found. If none found, then "0" is returned.

filter_poster REGEXP

Filter the list of articles using REGEXP on the poster.

filter REGEXP

Filter the list of articles using REGEXP on the subject.

1 POD Error

The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:

Around line 251:

'=item' outside of any '=over'

=over without closing =back