News::Scan::Thread(3pm)

News::Scan::Thread3pm

Keep track of threads in a usenet newsgroup

Usage

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

Overview

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

Constructor

new ( ARTICLE )

"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

subject

Returns this thread's subject.

volume

Returns the volume in bytes generated in this thread.

articles

Returns the number of posts to this thread.

header_volume

Returns the volume in bytes of the headers in this thread's articles.

header_lines

Returns the number of header lines in this thread's articles.

body_volume

Returns the volume in bytes of the message bodies of this thread's articles.

body_lines

Returns the number of lines in this thread's message bodies.

orig_volume

Returns the volume in bytes of the original content of this thread's articles.

orig_lines

Returns the number of original lines in this thread's articles.

sig_volume

Returns the volume in bytes of the signatures of this thread's articles.

sig_lines

Returns the number of signature lines in this thread's articles.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–5.0
  3. 6.0–9
  4. 10
  5. 11–13

Author

Greg Bacon <[email protected]>

From libnews-scan-perl 0.53-4.1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.