NAME

Locale::Maketext::Extract - Extract translatable strings from source

SYNOPSIS

    my $Ext = Locale::Maketext::Extract->new;
    $Ext->read_po('messages.po');
    $Ext->extract_file($_) for <*.pl>;
    $Ext->compile;
    $Ext->write_po('messages.po');

DESCRIPTION

This module can extract translatable strings from files, and write them back to PO files. It can also parse existing PO files and merge their contents with newly extracted strings.

A command-line utility, xgettext.pl, is installed with this module as well.

Following formats of input files are supported:

Perl source files

Valid localization function names are: translate, maketext, gettext, loc, x, _ and __.

HTML::Mason

Strings inside <&|/l>...</&> and <&|/loc>...</&> are extracted.

Template Toolkit

Strings inside [%|l%]...[%END%] or [%|loc%]...[%END%] are extracted.

Text::Template

Sentences between STARTxxx and ENDxxx are extracted individually.

Generic Template

Strings inside {{...}} are extracted.

METHODS

Constructor

    new

Accessors

    header, set_header
    lexicon, set_lexicon, msgstr, set_msgstr
    entries, set_entries, entry, add_entry, del_entry
    clear

PO File manipulation

    read_po
    write_po

Extraction

    extract
    extract_file

Compilation

    compile
    normalize_space

Lexicon accessors

    msgids, has_msgid,
    msgstr, set_msgstr
    msg_positions, msg_variables, msg_format, msg_out

Internal utilities

    _default_header
    _to_gettext
    _escape
    _format

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Jesse Vincent for contributing to an early version of this module.

Also to Alain Barbet, who effectively re-wrote the source parser with a flex-like algorithm.

SEE ALSO

xgettext.pl, Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

AUTHORS

Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003, 2004 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

cpanm Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Locale::Maketext::Lexicon