It seems ungood that there's no CPAN module for Pig Latin, at least none that I could find... so I shamelessly munged Lingua::Bork and this thread.
package Lingua::PigLatin;
use strict;
use warnings;
require Exporter;
use vars qw(@ISA %EXPORT_TAGS @EXPORT_OK $VERSION);
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
%EXPORT_TAGS = ( 'all' => [ 'piglatin' ] );
@EXPORT_OK = ( @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{'all'} } );
$VERSION = '0.01';
sub new {
my $class = shift;
bless {}, ref($class)||$class;
}
sub piglatin {
local $_ = shift;
local $_ = shift if ref($_);
s/\b(qu|[cgpstw]h # First syllable, including digraphs
|[^\W0-9_aeiou]) # Unless it begins with a vowel or number
?([a-z]+)/ # Store the rest of the word in a variable
$1?"$2$1ay" # move the first syllable and add -ay
:"$2way" # unless it should get -way instead
/iegx;
return $_;
}
1;
__END__
=head1 NAME
Lingua::PigLatin - Perl extension for Pig Latin
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Lingua::PigLatin 'piglatin';
print piglatin("Put the candle back.")
=head1 DESCRIPTION
igpay atinlay.
=head1 EXPORT
None by default.
Can export piglatin function for convenience.
=head1 AUTHOR
Jack Coates, E<lt>jack@monkeynoodle.orgE<gt>
=head1 SEE ALSO
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=3586
=head1 KNOWN PROBLEMS
Contractions.
This man page is not in Pig Latin.
=cut
I haven't uploaded it to CPAN yet, I think I'll mess around with it a little first. Maybe some tests...
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