NAME

Text::ExtractWords - Perl extension for extract words from strings

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::ExtractWords qw(words_count words_list);

  my %hash = ();
  my %config = (
    minwordlen => 2,
    maxwordlen => 32,
    locale     => "pt_PT.ISO_8859-1",
  );
  words_count(\%hash, "test the words_count function", \%config);

  my @list = ();
  words_list(\@list, "test the words_list function", \%config);

DESCRIPTION

The aim of this module is to extract the words from the texts or mails to identify spam. But it can be used for another purpose.

METHODS

words_count(HASHREF, STRING, HASHREF)

Extract words from a string to hash reference and count the number of occurrences for each word.

words_list(ARRAYREF, STRING, HASHREF)

Extract words from a string to array reference.

AUTHOR

Henrique Dias <hdias@aesbuc.pt>