NAME

News::Scan::Article - collect information about news articles

SYNOPSIS

    use News::Scan::Article;

    my $art = News::Scan::Article->new( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN );

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a derived class of Mail::Internet whose objects are suitable for digesting Usenet news articles.

CONSTRUCTOR

new ( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN-OBJ )

The ARG and OPTIONS parameters are identical to those required by Mail::Internet, except ARG is required. See Mail::Internet. The SCAN parameter should be a News::Scan object. See News::Scan.

If the article falls into the period of interest for SCAN, the object is returned, else undef.

METHODS

group ( [ SCAN-OBJ ] )

Sets or returns an object's group depending on whether SCAN-OBJ is present.

author

Returns the article's author represented as a Mail::Address object.

message_id

Returns the article's Message-ID.

subject

Returns the article's subject.

newsgroups

Returns the list of newsgroups this article was posted to.

size

Returns the size of this article in bytes.

header_size

Returns the size of this article's header in bytes.

header_lines

Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by headers.

body_size

Returns the size of this article's body in bytes.

body_lines

Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the body.

orig_size

Returns the size of this article's original content in bytes. See "QuoteRE" in News::Scan.

orig_lines

Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by original content. Keep in mind that original content is a subset of the body.

sig_size

Returns the size of this article'ss signature in bytes.

sig_lines

Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the signature.

SEE ALSO

News::Scan, Mail::Internet, Mail::Address

AUTHOR

Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>

COPYRIGHT

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.