Annotate(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Algorithm::Annotate — it represents a series of changes in annotate form ✨

okay so real talk, this page is Annotate(3), and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section. small module, big "who did it and when" energy. 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Algorithm::Annotate;

my $ann = Algorithm::Annotate->new ();

$ann->add ($info1, \@seq1);

$ann->add ($info2, \@seq2); $ann->add ($info3, \@seq3);

$result = $ann->result;

so the whole flow is: use Algorithm::Annotate, spin up a fresh $ann with Algorithm::Annotate->new (), then add your info-and-sequence pairs one after another — yes, $info2/\@seq2 and $info3/\@seq3 are sharing a line, that's just how the manpage wrote it, and honestly? iconic, no notes 💅 — and then $result = $ann->result; and you've got your result. periodt.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Algorithm::Annotate generates a list that is useful for generating output similar to cvs annotate. that's the whole job description, bestie. it makes the list, the list makes the annotate-style output happen. the way that's literally it and it's still useful 😭

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💀 TODO 💀

Might parse diff output and accumulate them for generating the annotate list. 👀

note the might, okay — that's a maybe, not a promise, not a feature. it's a "hmm what if" sitting in the TODO section where it belongs. don't come for me, come for the manpage 🙈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>

one singular legend. give them their flowers 🌸

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright 2003 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

so yeah — free software, same terms as Perl itself, go read the Artistic thing if you want the fine print. legal girlies rise 👑

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and that's the entire page, bestie!! this one came bundled with perl v5.42.0 and it's dated 2025-07-25. slay, have fun annotating 💖✨🎀