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Simple eyecandy ASCII tables, as seen in Catalyst.

Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for names with the same pronunciation to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling. Soundex is the most widely known of all phonetic algorithms and is often used (incorrectly) as a synonym for "phonetic algorithm". Improvements to Soundex are the basis for many modern phonetic algorithms. (Wikipedia, 2007) Text::Soundex implements the original soundex algorithm developed by Robert Russell and Margaret Odell, patented in 1918 and 1922, as well as a variation called "American Soundex" used for US census data, and current maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The soundex algorithm may be recognized from Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. The algorithm described by Knuth is the NARA algorithm.

The Text::Striphigh module exports a single function: C<striphigh>. This function takes one argument, a string possibly containing high ASCII characters in the ISO-8859-1 character set, and transforms this into a string containing only 7 bits ASCII characters, by substituting every high bit character with a similar looking standard ASCII character, or with a sequence of standard ASCII characters. Because of precisely the deficiency this package tries to offer a workaround for is present in some of the things that process pod, there are no examples in this manpage. Look at the source or the test script if you want examples. Kai Storbeck kai@xs4all.nl

This module is built on Text::Aspell, but adds some of the functionality provided by the internal gnu aspell API. This allows one to deal with blocks of text, rather than just words. For instance, we provide methods for iterating through the text, serializing the object (thus remembering where we left off), and highlighting the current misspelled word within the text.

Text::TabularDisplay simplifies displaying textual data in a table. The output is identical to the columnar display of query results in the mysql text monitor.

Parses "folksonomies", which are simple space-separated-but-optionally- quoted tag lists. See Text::Tags::Parser for the actual module; Text::Tags may be used in a future version of the distribution.

The confget utility examines a INI-style configuration file and retrieves the value of the specified variables from the specified section. Its intended use is to let shell scripts use the same INI-style configuration files as other programs, to avoid duplication of data. The confget utility may retrieve the values of one or more variables, list all the variables in a specified section, list only those whose names or values match a specified pattern (shell glob or regular expression), or check if a variable is present in the file at all. It has a "shell-quoting" output mode that quotes the variable values in a way suitable for passing them directly to a Bourne-style shell.

Text::Textile is a Perl-based implementation of Dean Allen's Textile syntax. Textile is shorthand for doing common formatting tasks.

Text::Trim does what chomp does, but at both ends of the string.

This is a simple, no-brainer subroutine to truncate a string and add an optional cutoff marker (defaults to ``...'').