Text::Lorem - Generate random Latin looking text
use Text::Lorem; my $text = Text::Lorem->new(); # Generate a string of text with 5 words $words = $text->words(5); # Generate a list of 5 words @words = $text->words(5); # Generate a string of text with 2 sentences $sentences = $text->sentences(2); # Generate a list of 2 sentences @sentences = $text->sentences(2); # Generate a string of text with 3 paragraphs $paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3); # Generate a list of 3 paragraphs @paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3);
Often when developing a website or other application it's important to have placeholders for content. This module generates prescribed amounts of fake Latin text.
new()
The default constructor, new() takes no arguments and returns a Text::Lorem object.
All methods below will return a string in scalar context or list in list context.
words( INTEGER )
Returns INTEGER fake Latin words.
sentences( INTEGER )
Returns INTEGER sentences in fake Latin.
paragraphs( INTEGER )
Returns INTEGER paragraphs of fake Latin text.
Thanks to the guys who pushed me off the cliff called comfort and into the scary world of Perl: James Duncan, Leon Brocard.
Adeola Awoyemi (adeola@cpan.org)
L<WWW::Lipsum> and L<http://lipsum.com/>
Copyright (c) 2003 by Adeola Awoyemi. This software is released under the same license as Perl itself.
To install Text::Lorem, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Text::Lorem
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Text::Lorem
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.