News::Scan::Thread - keep track of threads in a Usenet newsgroup
use News::Scan::Thread; my $thr = News::Scan::Thread->new($news_scan_article_obj);
This module provides a class whose objects can be used to keep track of threads of discussion in a Usenet newsgroup.
ARTICLE should be a News::Scan::Article object or an object of some class derived from News::Scan::Article.
ARTICLE
News::Scan::Article
new performs some initialization and returns a News::Scan::Thread.
new
News::Scan::Thread
Returns this thread's subject.
Returns the volume in bytes generated in this thread.
Returns the number of posts to this thread.
Returns the volume in bytes of the headers in this thread's articles.
Returns the number of header lines in this thread's articles.
Returns the volume in bytes of the message bodies of this thread's articles.
Returns the number of lines in this thread's message bodies.
Returns the volume in bytes of the original content of this thread's articles.
Returns the number of original lines in this thread's articles.
Returns the volume in bytes of the signatures of this thread's articles.
Returns the number of signature lines in this thread's articles.
News::Scan, News::Scan::Article
Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Bacon. All Rights Reserved. This library is free software. You may distribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install News::Scan, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm News::Scan
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install News::Scan
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.