NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

FUNCTIONS

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

       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".

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Kasei Limited Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Simon Cozens Copyright (C) 2004-2013 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 v5.18.1                                       2013-05-21                                        Quoted(3pm)