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.