SYNOPSIS

use Text::Context;
my $snippet = Text::Context->new($text, @keywords);
$snippet->keywords("foo", "bar"); # In case you change your mind
print $snippet->as_html;
print $snippet->as_text;

DESCRIPTION

Given a piece of text and some search terms, produces an object which locates the search terms in the message, extracts a reasonable-length string containing all the search terms, and optionally dumps the string out as HTML text with the search terms highlighted in bold.

new

Creates a new snippet object for holding and formatting context for search terms.

keywords

Accessor method to get/set keywords. As the context search is done case-insensitively, the keywords will be lower-cased.

paras

    @paras = $self->paras($maxlen)

Return shortened paragraphs to fit together into a snippet of at most $maxlen characters.

as_text

Calculates a ``representative'' string which contains the given search terms. If there's lots and lots of context between the terms, it's replaced with an ellipsis.

as_html([ start => <some tag>, end => <some end tag> ])

Markup the snippet as a HTML string using the specified delimiters or with a default set of delimiters ("<span class="quoted">").

AUTHOR

Original author: Simon Cozens

Current maintainer: Tony Bowden

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

  Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Kasei
  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; either version
  2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.