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>;

    # Set $entries_are_in_gettext_format if the .pl files above use
    # loc('%1') instead of loc('[_1]')
    $Ext->compile($entries_are_in_gettext_format);

    $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
    compiled_entries, set_compiled_entries, compiled_entry,
    add_compiled_entry, del_compiled_entry
    clear

PO File manipulation

method read_po ($file)

method write_po ($file, $add_format_marker?)

Extraction

    extract
    extract_file

Compilation

compile($entries_are_in_gettext_style?)

Merges the entries into compiled_entries.

If $entries_are_in_gettext_style is true, the previously extracted entries are assumed to be in the Gettext style (e.g. %1).

Otherwise they are assumed to be in Maketext style (e.g. [_1]) and are converted into Gettext style before merging into compiled_entries.

The entries are not cleared after each compilation; use -set_entries()> to clear them if you need to extract from sources with varying styles.

normalize_space

Lexicon accessors

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

Internal utilities

    _default_header
    _maketext_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

Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>

COPYRIGHT (The "MIT" License)

Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.

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cpanm Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

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