Text::Quoted - Extract the structure of a quoted mail message
use Text::Quoted; my $structure = extract($text); # Optionally, customize recognized quote characters: Text::Quoted::set_quote_characters( qr/[:]/ );
Text::Quoted examines the structure of some text which may contain multiple different levels of quoting, and turns the text into a nested data structure.
Text::Quoted
The structure is an array reference containing hash references for each paragraph belonging to the same author. Each level of quoting recursively adds another list reference. So for instance, this:
> foo > # Bar > baz quux
turns into:
[ [ { text => 'foo', quoter => '>', raw => '> foo' }, [ { text => 'Bar', quoter => '> #', raw => '> # Bar' } ], { text => 'baz', quoter => '>', raw => '> baz' } ], { empty => 1 }, { text => 'quux', quoter => '', raw => 'quux' } ];
This also tells you about what's in the hash references: raw is the paragraph of text as it appeared in the original input; text is what it looked like when we stripped off the quotation characters, and quoter is the quotation string.
raw
text
quoter
Takes a single string argument which is the text to extract quote structure from. Returns a nested datastructure as described above.
Exported by default.
Takes a regex (qr//) matching characters that should indicate a quoted line. By default, a very liberal set is used:
qr//
set_quote_characters(qr/[!#%=|:]/);
The character > is always recognized as a quoting character.
>
If undef is provided instead of a regex, only > will remain as a quote character.
undef
Not exported by default, but exportable.
my $text = combine_hunks( $arrayref_of_hunks );
Takes the output of extract and turns it back into text.
extract
Most of the heavy lifting is done by a modified version of Damian Conway's Text::Autoformat.
Text::Autoformat
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This software is Copyright (c) 2004-2015 by Best Practical Solutions, LLC
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Text::Quoted, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Text::Quoted
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Text::Quoted
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.