Text::Lorem - Generate random Latin looking text
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);
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.
- "new()"
- The default constructor, "new()" takes
no arguments and returns a Text::Lorem object.
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 to the guys who pushed me off the cliff called comfort and into the scary
world of Perl: James Duncan, Leon Brocard.
Adeola Awoyemi (adeola@cpan.org)
L<WWW::Lipsum> and L<http://lipsum.com/>
Copyright (c) 2003 by Adeola Awoyemi. This software is released under the same
license as Perl itself.