String::Canonical - Creates canonical strings.
use String::Canonical qw/cstr/; print cstr("one thousand maniacs"); print String::Canonical::get("Second tier");
This module generates a canonical string by converting roman numerals to digits, English descriptions of numbers to digits, stripping off all accents on characters (as well as handling oe = ö, ae = æ, etc.), replacing words with symbols (e.g. and = &, plus = +, etc.) and removing common variant endings.
In short, this module generates the same signature for the following strings:
bjørk = björk = bjoerk = bjork 1,000 maniacs = one thousand maniacs = 1k maniacs Boyz II Men = Boyz To Men = Boyz 2 Men ACDC = AC/DC = AC-DC Rubin and company = Rubin & Company = Rubin & Co. Third Eye Blind = 3rd eye blind Train runnin' = Train Running
The following functions may be imported into the caller package by name:
Returns the canonical form of the string passed. If no string is passed, $_ is used. When called in void context the function will set $_. The functon may also be accessed as get but only cstr may be exported.
Compares two strings. Note that if the second string is not provided, $_ is used.
Erick Calder <ecalder@cpan.org>
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$Id: Canonical.pm,v 1.2 2003/02/15 01:44:39 ekkis Exp $
1 POD Error
The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:
Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'ö,'. Assuming CP1252
To install String::Canonical, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm String::Canonical
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install String::Canonical
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