NAME¶

Text::Lorem - Generate random Latin looking text

SYNOPSIS¶

    use Text::Lorem;
    my $text = Text::Lorem->new();
    # Generate a string of text with 5 words
    $words = $text->words(5);
    # Generate a list of 5 words
    @words = $text->words(5);
    # Generate a string of text with 2 sentences
    $sentences = $text->sentences(2);
    # Generate a list of 2 sentences
    @sentences = $text->sentences(2);
    # Generate a string of text with 3 paragraphs
    $paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3);
    # Generate a list of 3 paragraphs
    @paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3);

DESCRIPTION¶

Often when developing a website or other application it's important to have placeholders for content. This module generates prescribed amounts of fake Latin text.

CONSTRUCTOR¶

"new()"

The default constructor, "new()" takes no arguments and returns a Text::Lorem object.

METHODS¶

All methods below will return a string in scalar context or list in list context.

"words( INTEGER )"

Returns INTEGER fake Latin words.

"sentences( INTEGER )"

Returns INTEGER sentences in fake Latin.

"paragraphs( INTEGER )"

Returns INTEGER paragraphs of fake Latin text.

THANKS¶

Thanks to the guys who pushed me off the cliff called comfort and into the scary world of Perl: James Duncan, Leon Brocard.

AUTHOR¶

Adeola Awoyemi (adeola@cpan.org)

SEE ALSO¶

  L<WWW::Lipsum> and L<http://lipsum.com/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (c) 2003 by Adeola Awoyemi. This software is released under the same license as Perl itself.