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NAME

Text::Lorem::More - Generate formatted nonsense using random Latin words.

VERSION

Version 0.13

SYNOPSIS

Generate formatted nonsense using random Latin words.

        use Text::Lorem::More;

        my $lorem = Text::Lorem::More->new;
        
        # Greet a friend
        print "Hello, ", $lorem->fullname, "\n";

        # You could also ...
        print $lorem->process("Hello, +fullname\n");

        ... or you can use the singleton:

        use Text::Lorem::More qw(lorem);

        # Generate a random latin word
        my $latinwordoftheday = lorem->word;

        # Produce paragaphs in the Text::Lorem compatible manner
        my $content = lorem->paragraphs(3);

        # Print 4 paragraphs, each separated by a single newline and tab:
        print "\t", scalar lorem->paragraph(4, "\n\t");

GENERATORS

To use a generator, call the method with the same name as the generator, To use the name generator, for example:

        my $name = $lorem->name;

Alternatively, you can use the generate or process functions. To use the hostname generator, for example:

        my $hostname = $lorem->hostname;

        # This will do the same thing ...
        my $otherhostname = $lorem->generate("+hostname");

word

Generates random latin word.

        dicta
        sed
        repellat

sentence

Generates between 4 and 9 words, with the first letter of the first word capitalized and a period following the last word.

paragraph

Generates between 3 and 6 sentences,

words $count

A Text::Lorem compatible words generator. Will generate $count words joined by " ".

sentences $count

A Text::Lorem compatible sentences generator. Will generate $count sentences joined by " ". Each sentence contains between 4 and 9 words and ends with a period. Passing in 0 for count will still produce a single period!

paragraphs $count

A Text::Lorem compatible sentences generator. Will generate $count paragraphs joined by "\n\n". Each paragraph contains between 3 and 6 sentences.

name / firstname / lastname

Generates a random latin word with the first letter capitalized

        Repellat
        Sed
        Ipsum

fullname

Generates a firstname and lastname separated by a space

        Lorem Dicta

username

Generates a random latin word

title

Generates between 1 and 3 words with the first letter of the first word capitalized

description

Generates between 1 and 3 sentences.

tld / topleveldomain

Generates a top level domain. Currently, this will either be "com", "org", or "net".

domain / domainname

Generates a domainname. Currently, this will attach "example" to a tld generator result.

        example.com
        example.net

host / hostname

Generates a hostname. Currently, this will either return a plain domainname, as above, or attach a latin word to a domainname result.

        et.example.com
        example.org

email / mail

path

httpurl

mailto

EXPORT

FUNCTIONS

new [$source]

Construct a new Text::Lorem::More object

generate $pattern [, $count, $separator]

Generate some text using the specified pattern.

generate is faster than process, as generate uses regex to perform substitution.

In list context, return a list with $count number of "words"

In scalar context, return $pattern repeated $count times and joined by $separator.

If you do not specify scalar context on the receiving end, then the separator will simply be discarded. This may change in the future

The default for $count is 1.

The default for $separator is " ".

A pattern will usually contain one or more generator tokens. For example:

        +name
        +fullname
        +word+word+word+word

The pattern can also contain other text:

        +name@+domainname
        "+firstname +lastname"

Sometimes you might need to enclose the token identifier between +{ and }

For example, the following pattern won't work right:

        prefix+namesuffix

But this will:

        prefix+{name}suffix

If you need to include a '+' in your pattern, you'll have to use process instead.

process $text

Process a block of text, performing pattern substitutions as they're found.

process is slower than generate, as process uses Parse::RecDescent.

To escape '+', simply repeat it. For example, to produce "2 + 2" you would submit:

        2 ++ 2

Please see generate for more information.

source

Return the generator source for this instance.

lorem

A Text::Lorem::More singleton.

AUTHOR

Robert Krimen, <robertkrimen at gmail.com>

SEE ALSO

Text::Lorem

WWW::Lipsum

http://lipsum.com/

SOURCE

You can contribute or fork this project via GitHub:

http://github.com/robertkrimen/text-lorem-more/tree/master

    git clone git://github.com/robertkrimen/text-lorem-more.git Text-Lorem-More

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Adeola Awoyemi for writing Text::Lorem

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2006 Robert Krimen, all rights reserved.

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

BUGS

Probaby a lot. Please report them (as below) and I'll take a look.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-text-lorem-more at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Text-Lorem-More. 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 Text::Lorem::More

You can also look for information at: