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?"

  # or

  $text = Text::Beautify->new("badly written text ,,you know ?");
  $new_text = $text->beautify;

  # and also

  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

METHODS

new

Creates a new Text::Beautify object

beautify

Applies all the enabled features

enabled_features

Returns a list with the enabled features

features

Returns a list containing all the features

enable_feature

Enables a feature

disable_feature

Disables a feature

enable_all

Enables all features

disable_all

Disables all features

TO DO

Allow the user to select the order in which features are applied
Allow creation of new features

AUTHOR

Jose Castro, <cog@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

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