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text::lorem

Text::Lorem(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  Text::Lorem(3pm)

NAME

       Text::Lorem - Generate random Latin looking text

SYNOPSIS

	   use Text::Lorem;

	   my $text = Text::Lorem->new();

	   # Generate a string of text with 5 words
	   $words = $text->words(5);

	   # Generate a string of text with 2 sentences
	   $sentences = $text->sentences(2);

	   # Generate 3 paragraphs
	   $paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3);

DESCRIPTION

       Often when developing a website or other application it's important to have placeholders for content.  This module generates prescribed
       amounts of fake Latin text.

CONSTRUCTOR

       "new()"
	   The default constructor, "new()" takes no arguments and returns a Text::Lorem object.

METHODS

       "words( INTEGER )"
	   Returns INTEGER fake Latin words.

       "sentences( INTEGER )"
	   Returns INTEGER sentences in fake Latin.

       "paragraphs( INTEGER )"
	   Returns INTEGER paragraphs of fake Latin text.

THANKS

       Thanks to the guys who pushed me off the cliff called comfort and into the scary world of Perl: James Duncan, Leon Brocard.

AUTHOR

       Adeola Awoyemi (adeola@fotango.com)

SEE ALSO

	 L<WWW::Lipsum> and L<http://lipsum.com/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2003 Fotango Ltd. All rights reserved. <http://opensource.fotango.com/> This software is released under the same license as Perl
       itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2011-01-05							  Text::Lorem(3pm)