Acme-Cow

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Cow.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

package Acme::Cow;

use strict;

$Acme::Cow::VERSION = '0.2.1';

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# Autoload methods go after =cut, and are processed by the autosplit program.

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=head1 NAME

Acme::Cow - Talking barnyard animals (or ASCII art in general)

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  use Acme::Cow;

Cow.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

(optional) A scalar that can be interpreted as a C<STRING> type
for C<Text::Template>.

=item Returns

An ASCII rendering of your cow.

=item Notes

If you're using an external file for a cow template, any difficulties
in processing the file will occur in this method.

Every time this method is called, the result is recalculated; there
is no caching of results.

=back

=cut

sub as_string 
{

cowsay  view on Meta::CPAN

generates an ASCII picture of a cow saying something provided by
the user.  If run with no arguments, it accepts standard input,
word-wraps the message given at about 40 columns, and prints the
cow saying the given message on standard output.

To aid in the use of arbitrary messages with arbitrary whitespace,
B<-n> option.  If it is specified, the given message will not be
word-wrapped.  This is possibly useful if you want to make the cow
think or speak in B<figlet(6)>.  If B<-n> is specified, there must
not be any command-line arguments left after all the switches have
been processed.

The B<-W> specifies roughly (where the message should be wrapped.
The default is equivalent to invoking with B<-W 40>, i.e. wrap
words at or before the 40th column.

If any command-line arguments are left over after all switches have
been processed, they become the cow's message.  The program will
not accept standard input for a message in this case.

There are several provided modes which change the appearance of
the cow depending on its particular emotional/physical state.  The
B<-b> option initiates Borg mode; B<-d> causes the cow to appear
dead; B<-g> invokes greedy mode; B<-p> causes a state of paranoia
to come over the cow; B<-s> makes the cow appear thoroughly stoned;
B<-t> yields a tired cow; B<-w> is somewhat the opposite of B<-t>,
and initiates wired mode; B<-y> brings on the cow's youthful
appearance.

cowthink  view on Meta::CPAN

generates an ASCII picture of a cow saying something provided by
the user.  If run with no arguments, it accepts standard input,
word-wraps the message given at about 40 columns, and prints the
cow saying the given message on standard output.

To aid in the use of arbitrary messages with arbitrary whitespace,
B<-n> option.  If it is specified, the given message will not be
word-wrapped.  This is possibly useful if you want to make the cow
think or speak in B<figlet(6)>.  If B<-n> is specified, there must
not be any command-line arguments left after all the switches have
been processed.

The B<-W> specifies roughly (where the message should be wrapped.
The default is equivalent to invoking with B<-W 40>, i.e. wrap
words at or before the 40th column.

If any command-line arguments are left over after all switches have
been processed, they become the cow's message.  The program will
not accept standard input for a message in this case.

There are several provided modes which change the appearance of
the cow depending on its particular emotional/physical state.  The
B<-b> option initiates Borg mode; B<-d> causes the cow to appear
dead; B<-g> invokes greedy mode; B<-p> causes a state of paranoia
to come over the cow; B<-s> makes the cow appear thoroughly stoned;
B<-t> yields a tired cow; B<-w> is somewhat the opposite of B<-t>,
and initiates wired mode; B<-y> brings on the cow's youthful
appearance.