SYNOPSIS
use News::Scan::Thread;
my $thr = News::Scan::Thread->new($news_scan_article_obj);
DESCRIPTION
This module provides a class whose objects can be used to keep track of threads of discussion in a Usenet newsgroup.CONSTRUCTOR
- new ( ARTICLE )
-
"ARTICLE" should be a "News::Scan::Article" object or an object of some
class derived from "News::Scan::Article".
"new" performs some initialization and returns a "News::Scan::Thread".
METHODS
- subject
- Returns this thread's subject.
- volume
- Returns the volume in bytes generated in this thread.
- articles
- Returns the number of posts to this thread.
- header_volume
- Returns the volume in bytes of the headers in this thread's articles.
- header_lines
- Returns the number of header lines in this thread's articles.
- body_volume
- Returns the volume in bytes of the message bodies of this thread's articles.
- body_lines
- Returns the number of lines in this thread's message bodies.
- orig_volume
- Returns the volume in bytes of the original content of this thread's articles.
- orig_lines
- Returns the number of original lines in this thread's articles.
- sig_volume
- Returns the volume in bytes of the signatures of this thread's articles.
- sig_lines
- Returns the number of signature lines in this thread's articles.
AUTHOR
Greg Bacon <[email protected]>COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Bacon. All Rights Reserved. This library is free software. You may distribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.