NAME

Meta::Utils::String - string related methods.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: String.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.10

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::String qw();
        my($object)=Meta::Utils::String->new();
        my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This module will give you various methods that you may need for handling strings. It is true that most of those have equivalent perl builtin operators or functions but these have different problems: 0. bad names. 1. weird calling conventions (not regular functions). 2. not object oriented.

Methods in this library include: 1. comparison functions. 2. transformation functions. 3. checking string which are filenames for common pitfalls.

FUNCTIONS

        compare($$)
        lower_case($)
        has_space($)
        is_alnum_u($)
        check_alnum_u($)
        separate($)
        blow_to_size($$$)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

compare($$)

This method uses the built it cmp functions to compare two strings and return the result. You can use this function in sorting or just for regular comparisons.

lower_case($)

This method receives a string and returns the lower case version of the string.

has_space($)

This method will return true/false value according to whether the string received has a space inside it.

is_alnum_u($)

This method will return true/false value according to whether the string received is an alpha numeric string with possible underscores.

check_alnum_u($)

This method receives a string and throws an exception if the string received is not an alpha numeric string with possible underscores.

separate($)

This method receives a string in ThisForm and returns it in this_form.

blow_to_size($$$)

This method will add a specfied string to another many times until it exceeds a certain length.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV md5 project
        0.01 MV database
        0.02 MV perl module versions in files
        0.03 MV movies and small fixes
        0.04 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.05 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.06 MV md5 project
        0.07 MV website construction
        0.08 MV web site automation
        0.09 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.10 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Error::Simple(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.

cpanm Meta::Init

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Meta::Init