A version 0.10
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NAME

ShiftJIS::String - functions to manipulate Shift_JIS encoded strings

SYNOPSIS

  use ShiftJIS::String qw(substr index length);
  $str = 'プログラミング Perl';
  $len = length(substr($str, 2 + index($str, 'ラミ')));
   # $len == 7, length in characters of 'ング Perl'.
   # CORE::length should be used to get length in bytes.

DESCRIPTION

This module provides some functions which emulate
the corresponding CORE functions and helps someone
to manipulate multiple-byte character sequences in Shift_JIS encoding.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

PREREQUISITES

Perl 5.003 or later.

Carp, Exporter, strict, vars.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright(C) 2001, SADAHIRO Tomoyuki. Japan. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
