News::Scan::Article - collect information about news articles

       Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>

       new ( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN-OBJ )
           The  "ARG" and "OPTIONS" parameters are identical to those required by "Mail::Internet", except "ARG"
           is required.  See Mail::Internet.  The  "SCAN"  parameter  should  be  a  "News::Scan"  object.   See
           News::Scan.

           If the article falls into the period of interest for "SCAN", the object is returned, else "undef".

       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.

perl v5.32.0                                       2021-01-08                           News::Scan::Article(3pm)

       This module provides a derived class of "Mail::Internet" whose objects are suitable for digesting Usenet
       news articles.

       group ( [ SCAN-OBJ ] )
           Sets or returns an object's group depending on whether "SCAN-OBJ" is present.

       author
           Returns the article's author represented as a "Mail::Address" object.

       message_id
           Returns the article's Message-ID.

       subject
           Returns the article's subject.

       newsgroups
           Returns the list of newsgroups this article was posted to.

       size
           Returns the size of this article in bytes.

       header_size
           Returns the size of this article's header in bytes.

       header_lines
           Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by headers.

       body_size
           Returns the size of this article's body in bytes.

       body_lines
           Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the body.

       orig_size
           Returns the size of this article's original content in bytes.  See "QuoteRE" in News::Scan.

       orig_lines
           Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by original content.  Keep in mind that original
           content is a subset of the body.

       sig_size
           Returns the size of this article'ss signature in bytes.

       sig_lines
           Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the signature.

       News::Scan::Article - collect information about news articles

       News::Scan, Mail::Internet, Mail::Address

           use News::Scan::Article;

           my $art = News::Scan::Article->new( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN );