Lingua::EN::Fathom - readability and general measurements of English text SYNOPSIS use Lingua::EN::Fathom; my $text = new Lingua::EN::Fathom; $text->analyse_file("sample.txt"); $accumulate = 1; $text->analyse_block($text_string,$accumulate); $num_chars = $text->num_chars; $num_words = $text->num_words; $percent_complex_words = $text->percent_complex_words; $num_sentences = $text->num_sentences; $num_text_lines = $text->num_text_lines; $num_blank_lines = $text->num_blank_lines; $num_paragraphs = $text->num_paragraphs; $syllables_per_word = $text->syllables_per_word; $words_per_sentence = $text->words_per_sentence; %words = $text->unique_words; foreach $word ( sort keys %words ) { print("$words{$word} :$word\n"); } $fog = $text->fog; $flesch = $text->flesch; $kincaid = $text->kincaid; print($text->report); DESCRIPTION This module analyses English text in either a string or file. Totals are then calculated for the number of characters, words, sentences, blank and non blank (text) lines and paragraphs. Three common readability statistics are also derived, the Fog, Flesch and Kincaid indices. All of these properties can be accessed through individual methods, or by generating a text report. A hash of all unique words and the number of times they occur is generated. REQUIRES Perl, version 5.001 or higher, Lingua::EN::Syllable HOW TO INSTALL perl Makefile.PL make make test make install BUGS None known AUTHOR Lingua::EN::Fathom was written by Kim Ryan, kimryan at cpan dot org. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (c) 2011 Kim Ryan. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.