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Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. This module implements the original soundex algorithm developed by Robert Russell and Margaret Odell, as well as a variation called "American Soundex".
Organization of data in table form is a time-honored and useful method of data representation. While columns of data are trivially generated by computer through formatted output, even simple tasks like keeping titles aligned with the data columns are not trivial, and the one-shot solutions one comes up with tend to be particularly hard to maintain. Text::Table allows you to create and maintain tables that adapt to alignment requirements as you use them.
This is a library for generating form letters, building HTML pages, or filling in templates generally. A 'template' is a piece of text that has little Perl programs embedded in it here and there. When you 'fill in' a template, you evaluate the little programs and replace them with their values.
Text::Unidecode provides a function, `unidecode(...)' that takes Unicode data and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters (i.e., the universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F). The representation is almost always an attempt at *transliteration* -- i.e., conveying, in Roman letters, the pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing system.
This is a module which intends to substitute Text::Wrap, which supports internationalized texts including: - multi-byte encodings such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, GB2312, and Big5, - full width characters like east Asian characters which appear in UTF-8, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, GB2312, Big5, and so on, - combining characters like diacritical marks which appear in UTF-8, ISO-8859-11 (aka TIS-620), and so on, and - languages which don't use white spaces between words, like Chinese and Japanese.
This module provides thread-safe FIFO queues that can be accessed safely by any number of threads.
Throwable is a role for classes that are meant to be thrown as exceptions to standard program flow. It is very simple and does only two things: saves any previous value for $@ and calls die $self.
This Perl module implements Perl hashes that preserve the order in which the hash elements were added. The order is not affected when values corresponding to existing keys in the IxHash are changed. The elements can also be set to any arbitrary supplied order. The familiar perl array operations can also be performed on the IxHash.
The Tie::RefHash module can be used to access hashes by reference. This is useful when you index by object, for example.