use WebService::GoogleHack::Text;

    #create an object of type Text

    my $text = GoogleHack::Text->new(); 

    # returns an hash words

    %results=$text->getWords("file location");

    # returns an hash of 3 word sentences

    %results=$text->getSentences("file location", 3); 

    # this function reads the configuration file

    %results=$text->readConfig("location of configuration file");

    #removes HTML tags

    %results=$text->removeHTML("string");

This is a simple Text processing package which aids GoogleHack and Rate modules. Given a file of words, it retreives the words in the file and stores it in a simple hash format. In addition, given a file of text, it can also form n word sentences.

Purpose: This function creates an object of type Text and returns a blessed reference.

Purpose: This this function can used to inititalize the member variables.

Valid arguments are :

• key
  
  string. key to the google-api
• wsdl_location
  
  string. This the wsdl file name
• basedir
  
  string. The base directory of Google Hack.
  
  
• taggerdir
  
  string. The location of the Brill Tagger

Purpose: Given a file of text or a variable containing text, this function tries to retrieve sentences from it.

Valid arguments are :

• file_name
  
  string. Name of file to retrieve sentences from.
• sentence_length
  
  Number. Number of words in a sentence.
• trace_file.
  
  string. The location of the trace file. If a file_name is given, the results are stored in this file

Returns: Returns an array of strings.

Purpose:Given a file of text this function tries to retrieve words from it.

Valid arguments are :

• file_name
  
  string. Name of file to retrieve sentences from.
• trace_file.
  
  string. The location of the trace file. If a file_name is given, the results are stored in this file

Returns: Returns a hash of words.

Purpose: Remove XML tags. Package XML::TokeParser must be installed

Valid arguments are :

• text
  
  string. The text to be de-tagged.

Returns: Returns a XML less text.

Purpose: Remove HTML tags. Package HTML::TokeParser must be installed

Valid arguments are :

• text
  
  string. The text to be de-tagged.

Returns: Returns a HTML less text.

Purpose: this function is used to read a configuration file containing informaiton such as the Google-API key, the words list etc.

Valid arguments are :

• filename
  
  string. Location of the configuration file.
• stemmer.
  
  bool. Porter Stemmer on or off.

returns : Returns an object which contains the parsed information.

Purpose: this function is used to read a configuration file containing informaiton such as the Google-API key, the words list etc.

Valid arguments are :

• filename
  
  string. Location of the configuration file.

returns : Returns an object which contains the parsed information.

Pratheepan Raveendranathan, <rave0029@d.umn.edu>

Ted Pedersen, <tpederse@d.umn.edu>

GoogleHack home page - http://google-hack.sourceforge.net

Pratheepan Raveendranathan - http://www.d.umn.edu/~rave0029/research

Ted Pedersen - www.d.umn.edu./~tpederse

Google-Hack Maling List <google-hack-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

Pratheepan Raveendranathan, <rave0029@d.umn.edu>

Ted Pedersen, <tpederse@d.umn.edu>

Copyright (c) 2005 by Pratheepan Raveendranathan, Ted Pedersen

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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