String::Multibyte.pm version 1.12 ================ String::Multibyte - locale-independent manipulation of multibyte character strings SYNOPSIS use String::Multibyte $sjis = String::Multibyte->new('ShiftJIS'); $sjis_length = $sjis->length($sjis_string); DESCRIPTION This module provides some functions which emulate the corresponding CORE:: functions to manipulate multiple-byte character strings. This module uses the object-oriented syntax to tell methods in which charset the specified strings should be handled. PREREQUISITES Perl 5.003 or later (Perl 5.005 or later Recommended) * The following modules taking advantage of the Unicode Support (see ) are required Perl 5.8.0 or later. String::Multibyte::Grapheme String::Multibyte::Unicode INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Note: t/long.t does stress tests to cope with long strings. If it takes long long time on your machine, try again after removing it. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE SADAHIRO Tomoyuki Copyright(C) 2001-2015, SADAHIRO Tomoyuki. Japan. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.