For all its magic, Père Noël's sack is just a big velvet bag, and sometimes things get a little mixed up. On top of that, with the variety of toys that exist today—gone are the days of dollies or pop guns—he can't always figure out what's what. Therefore, he keeps a little app on his PDA to check that a toy is culturally appropriate; children may play with identical toys around the world, but the packaging and directions can vary. A simplified version of this tool, featuring Lingua::Ident, is shown below.
Hyper Blocs Colorés => fr.iso-8859-1
Mega Color Blox => en.iso-8859-1
Elmo => en.iso-8859-1
Monsieur Patate => fr.iso-8859-1
More probable uses of this module include spam filtering, or even sorting texts into different forms or dialects e.g; Middle English, slang, legalese, academic; as a substitute legibility indicator.
1 use Lingua::Ident; 2 3 #Load sample tables from module 4 $i = new Lingua::Ident(qw(data.en data.fr)); 5 6 #What's what? 7 printf("$_ => %s\n", $i->identify($_)) while( chomp($_=<DATA>) ); 8 9 __DATA__ 10 Hyper Blocs Colorés 11 Mega Color Blox 12 Elmo 13 Monsieur Patate
Published 2008-12-13