News::...Thread(3pm)

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💖 News::...Thread(3pm) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the world, where we're gonna talk about keeping track of threads in a Usenet newsgroup. yes, threads. like, the original group chat. no cap. 🧵✨

✨ NAME ✨

News::Scan::Thread — keep track of threads in a Usenet newsgroup 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use News::Scan::Thread;

my $thr = News::Scan::Thread->new($news_scan_article_obj);

like, that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this module gives you a class, and the objects from that class are literally built to keep track of threads of discussion in a Usenet newsgroup. it's giving organizational queen. 👑

🎀 CONSTRUCTOR 🎀

  • new ( ARTICLE ) — ARTICLE should be a News::Scan::Article object, or honestly an object of some class derived from News::Scan::Article — we're not picky, we love a nepo-baby subclass. 🫶

new does some initialization (the behind-the-scenes getting-ready moment, main character energy) and then returns a News::Scan::Thread. slay. ✨

🌸 METHODS 🌸

every single one of these is a little getter, and they're all obsessed with returning numbers about your thread. let's go, one by one, no skips, we don't gatekeep: 💖

  • subject — returns this thread's subject. the topic. the moment. 💬
  • volume — returns the volume in bytes generated in this thread. it's giving how much yapping, measured in bytes. 📏
  • articles — returns the number of posts to this thread. so like, how many of y'all showed up. 👯
  • header_volume — returns the volume in bytes of the headers in this thread's articles. yes, the headers get their own byte count. they have a whole separate personality. 🎀
  • header_lines — 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. the meat. the substance. 🍓
  • body_lines — returns the number of lines in this thread's message bodies. line count, but for the bod. ✍️
  • orig_volume — returns the volume in bytes of the original content of this thread's articles. like, the unquoted, un-quoted-reply, genuinely-you content. 🔥
  • 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. yes bestie, the sigs. they count. they always counted. 💜
  • sig_lines — returns the number of signature lines in this thread's articles. and that's the last one, periodt. 🫡

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go check out the rest of the family, they're all iconic:

  • News::Scan
  • News::Scan::Article

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu> — the actual legend who wrote this. we stan. 💅

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. 🫶

okay so like, legally speaking: it's free, you can share it and/or remix it, just keep it under the same terms as Perl itself. respect the rules, queen. ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this beauty shipped with perl v5.32.0 and got dated 2021-01-08 — so if you're reading it, congrats, you're part of the News::...Thread(3pm) legacy. mwah. 💋🦋💖

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