News::Scan::Thread(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   News::Scan::Thread(3pm)

NAME

       News::Scan::Thread - keep track of threads in a Usenet newsgroup

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.

SEE ALSO

       News::Scan, News::Scan::Article

AUTHOR

       Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>

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.

perl v5.10.1							    2000-04-13						   News::Scan::Thread(3pm)