News::Scan::Thread - keep track of threads in a Usenet
newsgroup
use News::Scan::Thread;
my $thr = News::Scan::Thread->new($news_scan_article_obj);
This module provides a class whose objects can be used to keep
track of threads of discussion in a Usenet newsgroup.
- 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".
- 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.
- Returns the volume in bytes of the headers in this thread's articles.
- 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.
News::Scan, News::Scan::Article
Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
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.