NAME

Algorithm::MarkovChain - Object oriented Markov chain generator

SYNOPSIS

  use Algorithm::MarkovChain;

  my $chain = Algorithm::MarkovChain::->new();

  # learn about things from @symbols
  $chain->seed(symbols => \@symbols,
               longest => 6);

  # attempt to tell me something about the sky
  my @newness = $chain->spew(length   => 20,
                             complete => [ qw( the sky is ) ]);

INSTALLATION

 perl Build.PL
 perl Build test

and if all goes well

 perl Build install

HISTORY

What changed over the last 3 revisions

0.06 Sunday 9th March, 2004

        Fix for rt.cpan.org #6259
        Converted to Module::Build

0.03 Tue Oct 31 16:22:56 2000

        - change in spew behavior, prevents infinite loops in the case
          that a chainset is self-referential

0.02 Mon Oct 09 17:54:00 2000

        - test for existence of chains in spew to prevent looping

AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

SEE ALSO

perl(1).