NAME

Text::Chump - a module for parsing Chump like syntax

SYNOPSIS

        use Text::Chump;

        my $tc = Text::Chump->new();

        $tc->chump('[all mine!|http://thegestalt.org]');
        # returns <a href='http://thegestalt.org'>all mine!</a>

        $tc->chump('+[all mine!|http://thegestalt.org]');
        # returns <img src='http://thegestalt.org' alt='all mine!'>

        $tc->chump('http://thegestalt.org');
        # returns <a href='http://thegestalt.org'>http;//thegestalt.org</a>

        my $tc = Text::Chump->new({images=>0});

        $tc->chump('+[all mine!|http://thegestalt.org]');
        # returns '+[all mine!|http://thegestalt.org]'


        sub foo {
                my ($url, $label) = @_;

                return "$label ($url)";
        }

        $tc->install('link',\&foo);
        $tc->chump('[foo|http://bar.com]');
        # returns 'foo (http://bar.com)'

        sub quirka {
                my ($opts, $match, $label) = @_;

                return "<a href="blog.cgi?entry=$match">$label</a>";

        }



        $tc->install('link',\$quirka,'\d+');
        $tc->chump('[stuff|4444]');
        # returns "<a href="blog.cgi?entry=4444">stuff</a>"

DEPENDENCIES

This module has external dependencies on the following modules:

 Test::More
 Text::DelimMatch
 Tie::IxHash
 URI::Find

INSTALLATION

 perl Makefile.PL
 make test

and if all goes well

 make install

HISTORY

v1.02 - Fixing some potential undef warnings

        Found by Tom insam

AUTHOR

Copyright 2003, Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>

SEE ALSO

http://usefulinc.com/chump/, Bot::Basic::Pluggable::Blog, Template::Plugin::Chump, Text::WikiFormat, HTML::FromText, Tie::IxHash