man News::Scan::Article (3): collect information about news articles

SYNOPSIS

use News::Scan::Article;
my $art = News::Scan::Article->new( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN );

This module provides a derived class of "Mail::Internet" whose objects are suitable for digesting Usenet news articles.

new ( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN-OBJ ): The "ARG" and "OPTIONS" parameters are identical to those required by "Mail::Internet", except "ARG" is required. See Mail::Internet. The "SCAN" parameter should be a "News::Scan" object. See News::Scan.
If the article falls into the period of interest for "SCAN", the object is returned, else "undef".

group ( [ SCAN-OBJ ] ): Sets or returns an object's group depending on whether "SCAN-OBJ" is present.
author: Returns the article's author represented as a "Mail::Address" object.
message_id: Returns the article's Message-ID.
subject: Returns the article's subject.
newsgroups: Returns the list of newsgroups this article was posted to.
size: Returns the size of this article in bytes.
header_size: Returns the size of this article's header in bytes.
header_lines: Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by headers.
body_size: Returns the size of this article's body in bytes.
body_lines: Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the body.
orig_size: Returns the size of this article's original content in bytes. See ``QuoteRE'' in News::Scan.
orig_lines: Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by original content. Keep in mind that original content is a subset of the body.
sig_size: Returns the size of this article'ss signature in bytes.
sig_lines: Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the signature.