NAME

       URI::Find::Simple - a simple interface to URI::Find

SYNOPSIS

         use URI::Find::Simple qw( list_uris );
         my @list = list_uris($text);

         my $html = change_uris($text, sub { "<a href=\"$_[0]\">$_[0]</a>" } );

DESCRIPTION

       URI::Find is all very well, but sometimes you just want a list of the links in a given
       piece of text, or you want to change all the urls in some text somehow, and don't want to
       mess with callback interfaces.

       This module uses URI::Find, but hides the callback interface, providing two functions -
       one to list all the uris, and one to change all the uris.

   list_uris( text )
       returns a list of all the uris in the passed string, in the form output by the
       URI->as_string function, not the form that they exist in the text.

   change_uris( text, sub { code } )
       the passed sub is called for every found uri in the text, and it's return value is
       substituted into the string. Returns the changed string.

CAVEATS, BUGS, ETC

       The change_uris function is only just nicer than the callback interface. In some ways it's
       worse. I's prefer to just pass an s/// operator somehow, but I don't think that's
       possible.

       The list_uris function returns the stringified versions of the URI objects, this seemed to
       be the sensible thing. To present a consistent interface, the change_uris function
       operates on these strings as well, which are not the same as the strings actually present
       in the original. Therefore this code:

         my $text = change_uris($text, sub { shift } );

       may not return the same thing you pass it. URIs such as <URI:http://jerakeen.org> will be
       converted to the string 'http://jerakeen.org'.

SEE ALSO

       URI::Find, URI::Find::Iterator, URI

AUTHOR

       Copyright (c) 2004 Tom Insam <tom@jerakeen.org> inspired by Paul Mison <paul@husk.org>

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