Quoted(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       Quoted(3pm)

NAME

       Text::Quoted - Extract the structure of a quoted mail message

SYNOPSIS

	   use Text::Quoted;
	   my $structure = extract($text);

DESCRIPTION

       "Text::Quoted" examines the structure of some text which may contain multiple different levels of quoting, and turns the text into a nested
       data structure.

       The structure is an array reference containing hash references for each paragraph belonging to the same author. Each level of quoting
       recursively adds another list reference. So for instance, this:

	   > foo
	   > # Bar
	   > baz

	   quux

       turns into:

	   [
	     [
	       { text => 'foo', quoter => '>', raw => '> foo' },
	       [
		   { text => 'Bar', quoter => '> #', raw => '> # Bar' }
	       ],
	       { text => 'baz', quoter => '>', raw => '> baz' }
	     ],

	     { empty => 1 },
	     { text => 'quux', quoter => '', raw => 'quux' }
	   ];

       This also tells you about what's in the hash references: "raw" is the paragraph of text as it appeared in the original input; "text" is
       what it looked like when we stripped off the quotation characters, and "quoter" is the quotation string.

CREDITS

       Most of the heavy lifting is done by a modified version of Damian Conway's "Text::Autoformat".

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Kasei Limited Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Simon Cozens Copyright (C) 2004 Best Practical Solutions, LLC

       This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2010-03-15							       Quoted(3pm)