NAME

Text::Beautify - Beautifies text

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::Beautify;

  $text = "badly written text ,,you know ?"

  $new_text = beautify($text);
  # $new_text now holds "Badly written text, you know?"

  enable_feature('repeated_punctuation'); # enables the feature
  disable_feature('trailing_space');      # disables the feature

  @features_enables = enabled_features();

  @all_features = features();

  enable_all();
  disable_all();

DESCRIPTION

Beautifies text. This involves operations like squeezing double spaces, removing spaces from the beginning and end of lines, upper casing the first character in a string, etc.

You can enable / disable features with enable_feature / disable_feature. These commands return a true value if they are successful.

To know which features are beautified, see FEATURES

FEATURES

All features are enabled by default

• heading_space

          Removes heading spaces

• trailing_space

          Removes trailing spaces

• double_spaces

          Squeezes double spaces

• repeated_punctuation

          Squeezes repeated punctuation

• space_in_front_of_punctuation

          Removes spaces in front of punctuation

• space_after_punctuation

          Puts a spaces after punctuation

• uppercase_first

          Uppercases the first character in the string

MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

If you're using this module, please drop me a line to my e-mail. Tell me what you're doing with it. Also, feel free to suggest new bugs^H^H^H^H^H features.

AUTHOR

Jose Alves de Castro, <cog [at] cpan [dot] org<gt>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2004 by Jose Alves de Castro

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