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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
string::dirify
String::Dirify(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation String::Dirify(3pm)
NAME
"String::Dirify" - Convert a string into a directory name
Synopsis
use String::Dirify;
my($dir_1) = String::Dirify -> dirify('frobnitz');
Or:
use String::Dirify ':all';
my($dir_2) = dirify('bar baz');
Or even:
use String::Dirify;
my($sd) = String::Dirify -> new();
my($dir_3) = $sd -> dirify('!Q@W#E$R%T^Y');
Description
"String::Dirify" is a pure Perl module.
This module allows you to convert a string (possibly containing high ASCII characters, and even HTML) into another, lower-cased, string
which can be used as a directory name.
For usage, see the Synopsis.
This code is derived from similar code in Movable Type.
Method: dirify($string [, $separator])
Returns a string, which can be used as a directory name.
The default separator is '_'.
Each run of spaces in the string is replaced by this separator.
Algorithm
1: Each high ASCII character is replaced by its normal equivalent
2: The string is converted to lower case
3: Any HTML (including HTML entities) in the string is removed
4: Any characters which are not (Perl) words, spaces or hyphens, are removed
5: Runs of spaces are converted to the separator character
For more details about this character, see the discussion of the dirify() method (above).
Melody 'v' Movable Type
See http://openmelody.org for details.
Backwards Compatibility with Movable Type
Unfortunately, Movable Type's usage of dirify() allows a fake separator - '1' - to be used for the second parameter in the call to
dirify().
The '1' triggered usage of '_' as the separator, rather than the '1' provided.
This 'feature' has been preserved in "String::Dirify", but is discouraged. Instead, simply drop the second parameter and let the code
default to '_'.
Distributions
This module is available as a Unix-style distro (*.tgz).
See http://savage.net.au/Perl-modules.html for details.
Authors
"String::Dirify" started out as part of Movable Type's code.
Then, Mark Stosberg cut down the original code to provide just the English/ISO/ASCII features.
Lastly, the code was cleaned up, tests added, and all packaged, by Ron Savage <ron@savage.net.au> in 2009.
Home page: http://savage.net.au/index.html
Copyright (c) 2009, Mark Stosberg, Ron Savage.
Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, Ron Savage.
perl v5.10.1 2011-01-08 String::Dirify(3pm)