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$Id: README,v 1.5 2004/07/31 13:47:41 rjray Exp $

Skopje - Some Keywords of Perl's for Java Environments

This is a package of Java static classes that provide some simple elements of
functionality from Perl. Rather than trying to make Java code look like Perl,
this library tries to offer up helpful utility functions for certain tasks that
might otherwise be frequently re-implemented. No existing Java methods are
re-created under more Perl-like names; as an example, while there are classes
to provide the Perl "ucfirst" and "lcfirst" keywords there are no classes or
methods for "uc" and "lc". This is because the java.util.String class already
provides these in the form of "toUpperCase" and "toLowerCase".

Over time, more Perl elements may be added, and some may even be removed if
future versions of the JRE core classes provide identical functionality.

Questions and comments may be sent to: Randy J. Ray <rjray@blackperl.com>

This software is released under the terms of the Artistic License. Users of
this software or the source code that comprises it may choose to redistribute
it under either the Artistic License or under the GNU Lesser GPL, at their own
discretion. No other license terms are permitted without express consent of the
owner. The GNU LGPL is included in this distribution as the file "lesser.txt".
If distributing all or part of this package under the LGPL, please make sure
to include the license file.


Version 0.2

- Made an optimization in Join

- Added some more tests for edge cases in JoinTest

- Small documentation fix in Chomp

- Fixed a potential NullPointerException case in Chomp

- Made the behavior of chomp() in cases of null and zero-length separators
  match that of Perl.

- Added more tests to ChompTest to measure this new functionality.