NAME Acme::Mobile::Thurblings - count keystrokes to write mobile text messages SYNOPSIS use Acme::Mobile::Thurblings; $thurbs = count_thurblings("See u l8r"); # $thurbs == 23 DESCRIPTION This module counts the number of *thurblings* used to write mobile text messages. A thurbling is unit used to measure the number of actions (in this case keypresses or pauses) for people who like to optimize industrial processes. So you can use this module to determine useless facts such as that it takes as many keypresses to write "later" or "great" as it does "l8r" and "gr8". I have no idea if a "thurbling" is a real unit of measurement or just the figment of a former employer's imagination. (Internet searches for the term were fruitless.) But since this is an Acme module, it doesn't matter much. See the module POD for more details. REVISION HISTORY The following changes have been made since v0.01: 0.02 Sun Jan 2 20:07:00 2005 - added more tests - added option for NO_SHIFT - updated documentation - added ability to change options in constructor - added option for NO_SENTENCE_CAPS - added case flag to count function - added debug flag to count function See the Changes file included with the distribution for a more comprehensive history. AUTHOR Robert Rothenberg COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2004-2005 by Robert Rothenberg. All Rights Reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.