NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

           # Optionally, customize recognized quote characters:
           Text::Quoted::set_quote_characters( qr/[:]/ );

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.

FUNCTIONS

   extract
         my $struct = extract($text, \%arg);

       Takes a single string argument which is the text to extract quote structure from.  Returns
       a nested datastructure as described above.

       Second argument is optional: a hashref of options.  The only valid argument at present is:

         no_separators - never mark paragraphs as "separators"

       Exported by default.

   set_quote_characters
       Takes a regex ("qr//") matching characters that should indicate a quoted line.  By
       default, a very liberal set is used:

           set_quote_characters(qr/[!#%=|:]/);

       The character ">" is always recognized as a quoting character.

       If "undef" is provided instead of a regex, only ">" will remain as a quote character.

       Not exported by default, but exportable.

   combine_hunks
         my $text = combine_hunks( $arrayref_of_hunks );

       Takes the output of "extract" and turns it back into text.

       Not exported by default, but exportable.

CREDITS

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

AUTHOR

       Best Practical Solutions, LLC <modules@bestpractical.com>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       This software is Copyright (c) 2004-2015 by Best Practical Solutions, LLC

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