1Text::Context(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::Context(3)
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6 Text::Context - Handle highlighting search result context snippets
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9 use Text::Context;
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11 my $snippet = Text::Context->new($text, @keywords);
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13 $snippet->keywords("foo", "bar"); # In case you change your mind
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19 Given a piece of text and some search terms, produces an object which
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25 Creates a new snippet object for holding and formatting context for
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29 Accessor method to get/set keywords. As the context search is done
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35 Return shortened paragraphs to fit together into a snippet of at most
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39 Calculates a "representative" string which contains the given search
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44 Markup the snippet as a HTML string using the specified delimiters or
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48 Original author: Simon Cozens
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50 Current maintainer: Tony Bowden
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53 Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
54 bug-Text-Context@rt.cpan.org
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57 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Kasei
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59 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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63 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
64 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
65 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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