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A Mail::QuoteWrap object expects its text member to contain a reference
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to a list of lines of text, such as the output of methods like body
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News::Article(). It can then produce quotified output, optionally
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prepended with the quote mark designated by output_quotechar, within the
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width specified by columns.
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Mail::QuoteWrap specificially does not solve the following problems:
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It does not handle munged quote characters, such as those produced by the
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AOHell newsreader or similar gunge:
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>> This >is a second-generation quote, but it
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> looks >>like a nasty mix of first- and second->
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> generation >>material.
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It does not automatically detect and bypass news or mail headers. That
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is not the role of this object.
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It assumes a paragraph structure to the quoted text and doesn't try to
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enforce any other. If you want a module that detects document structure
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and deals well with it, look at Text::Autoformat.
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