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News::Scan::Thread(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation News::Scan::Thread(3pm)

NAME

News::Scan::Thread - keep track of threads in a Usenet newsgroup

SYNOPSIS

    use News::Scan::Thread;
    my $thr = News::Scan::Thread->new($news_scan_article_obj);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a class whose objects can be used to keep track of threads of discussion in a Usenet newsgroup.

CONSTRUCTOR

"ARTICLE" should be a "News::Scan::Article" object or an object of some class derived from "News::Scan::Article".

"new" performs some initialization and returns a "News::Scan::Thread".

METHODS

Returns this thread's subject.
Returns the volume in bytes generated in this thread.
Returns the number of posts to this thread.
Returns the volume in bytes of the headers in this thread's articles.
Returns the number of header lines in this thread's articles.
Returns the volume in bytes of the message bodies of this thread's articles.
Returns the number of lines in this thread's message bodies.
Returns the volume in bytes of the original content of this thread's articles.
Returns the number of original lines in this thread's articles.
Returns the volume in bytes of the signatures of this thread's articles.
Returns the number of signature lines in this thread's articles.

SEE ALSO

News::Scan, News::Scan::Article

AUTHOR

Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Bacon. All Rights Reserved. This library is free software. You may distribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

2021-01-08 perl v5.32.0