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FormReply(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation FormReply(3pm)

NAME

News::FormReply - derivative of News::FormArticle and News::AutoReply

SYNOPSIS

  use News::FormReply;

See below for functions available.

DESCRIPTION

This is a "mixin" of News::FormArticle and News::AutoReply; it generates form replies by performing substitutions on a text file.

USAGE

  use News::FormReply;

Exports nothing.

Constructor

new ( ORIGINAL, FILENAME [, SOURCE [...]] )
Construct an article as a reply to "ORIGINAL", initialised from the specified file, performing variable substitution with values supplied by the "SOURCE" parameters (see News::FormArticle).

The Subject, To, References and In-Reply-To headers are setup after the template has been read and substituted, but a Subject header set in a template will not be overridden.

AUTHOR

Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1997 Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>

This code may be used and/or distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

2018-01-02 perl v5.26.1