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NAME

Lingua::Han::Utils - The utility tools of Chinese character(HanZi)

SYNOPSIS

    use Lingua::Han::Utils qw/Unihan_value csplit cdecode csubstr clength/;

    # cdecode
    # the same as decode('cp936', $word) in ASCII editing mode
    #         and decode('utf8', $word) in Unicode editing mode
    my $word = cdecode($word);

    # Unihan_value
    # return the first field of Unihan.txt on unicode.org
    my $word = "我";
    my $unihan = Unihan_value($word); # return '6211'
    my $words = "爱你";
    my @unihan = Unihan_value($word); # return (7231, 4F60)
    my $unihan = Unihan_value($word); # return 72314F60

    # csplit
    # split the Chinese characters into an array
    my $words = "我爱你";
    my @words = csplit($words); # return ("我", "爱", "你")

    # csubstr
    # treat the Chinese characters as one
    # so it's the same as splice(csplit($words), $offset, $length)
    my $words = "我爱你啊";
    my @words = csubstr($words, 1, 2); # return ("爱", "你")
    my @words = csubstr($words, 1); # return ("爱", "你", "啊")
    my $words = csubstr($words, 1, 2); # 爱你

    # clength
    # treat the Chinese character as one
    my $words = "我爱你";
    print clength($words); # 3

EXPORT

Nothing is exported by default.

EXPORT_OK

cdecode

use Encode::Guess to decode the character. It behavers like: decode('cp936', $word) under ASCII editing mode and decode('utf8', $word) under Unicode editing mode.

Unihan_value

the first field of Unihan.txt is the Unicode scalar value as U+[x]xxxx, we return the [x]xxxx.

csplit

split the Chinese characters into an array, English words can be mixed in.

csubstr(WORD, OFFSET, LENGTH)

treat the Chinese character as one word, substr it.

(BE CAFEFUL! it's NOT lvalue, we cann't use csubstr($word, 2, 3) = $REPLACEMENT)

if no LENGTH is specified, substr form OFFSET to END.

clength

treat the Chinese character as one word(length 1).

DOCUMENT

a Chinese version of document can be found @ http://www.fayland.org/journal/Lingua-Han-Utils.html

AUTHOR

Fayland Lam, <fayland at gmail.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-lingua-han-utils at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Lingua-Han-Utils. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Lingua::Han::Utils

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

the wonderful Encode::Guess

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005 Fayland Lam, all rights reserved.

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