Data::Phrasebook::Loader::Text(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Data::Phrasebook::Loader::Text(3pm)

NAME

       Data::Phrasebook::Loader::Text - Absract your phrases with plain text files.

SYNOPSIS

	   use Data::Phrasebook;

	   my $q = Data::Phrasebook->new(
	       class  => 'Fnerk',
	       loader => 'Text',
	       file   => 'phrases.txt',
	   );

	   # use default delimiters (:variable)
	   my $phrase = $q->fetch($keyword,{variable => 'substitute'});

	   # use Template Toolkit style delimiters
	   $q->delimiters( qr{ [% s* (w+) s* %] }x );
	   my $phrase = $q->fetch($keyword,{variable => 'substitute'});

DESCRIPTION

       This loader plugin implements phrasebook patterns using plain text files.

       Phrases can be contained within one or more dictionaries, with each phrase accessible via a unique key. Phrases may contain placeholders,
       please see Data::Phrasebook for an explanation of how to use these. Groups of phrases are kept in a dictionary. In this implementation a
       single file is one complete dictionary.

       An example plain text file:

	 foo=Welcome to :my world. It is a nice :place.

       Within the phrase text placeholders can be used, which are then replaced with the appropriate values once the get() method is called. The
       default style of placeholders can be altered using the delimiters() method.

INHERITANCE

       Data::Phrasebook::Loader::Text inherits from the base class Data::Phrasebook::Loader::Base.  See that module for other available methods
       and documentation.

METHODS

   load
       Given a "file", load it. "file" must contain a valid phrase map.

	  my $file = 'english.txt';
	  $loader->load( $file );

       This method is used internally by Data::Phrasebook::Generic's "data" method, to initialise the data store.

       To utilise the dictionary framework for a Plain Text phrasebook, the idea is to use a directory of files, where the directory is passed via
       the "file" argument and the dictionary, the specific name of the file, is passed via the "dictionary" argument.

	  my $file = '/tmp/phrasebooks';
	  my $dictionary = 'english.txt';
	  $loader->load( $file, $dictionary );

   get
       Returns the phrase stored in the phrasebook, for a given keyword.

	  my $value = $loader->get( $key );

   dicts
       Having instantiated the "Data::Phrasebook" object class, and using the "file" attribute as a directory path, the object can return a list
       of the current dictionaries available as:

	 my $pb = Data::Phrasebook->new(
	   loader => 'Text',
	   file   => '/tmp/phrasebooks',
	 );

	 my @dicts = $pb->dicts;

       or

	 my @dicts = $pb->dicts( $path );

   keywords
       Having instantiated the "Data::Phrasebook" object class, using the "file" and "dict" attributes as required, the object can return a list
       of the current keywords available as:

	 my $pb = Data::Phrasebook->new(
	   loader => 'Text',
	   file   => '/tmp/phrasebooks',
	   dict   => 'TEST',
	 );

	 my @keywords = $pb->keywords;

       or

	 my @keywords = $pb->keywords( $path, $dict );

       Note that $path can either be the directory path, where $dict must be the specific file name of the dictionary, or the full path of the
       dictionary file.

       In the second instance, the function will not load a dictionary, but can be used to interrogate the contents of a known dictionary.

SEE ALSO

       Data::Phrasebook.

SUPPORT

       Please see the README file.

AUTHOR

	 Barbie, <barbie@cpan.org>
	 for Miss Barbell Productions <http://www.missbarbell.co.uk>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

	 Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Barbie for Miss Barbell Productions.

	 This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
	 modify it under the Artistic Licence v2.

perl v5.10.1							    2010-08-31				       Data::Phrasebook::Loader::Text(3pm)