NAME Bad::Words - a list of bad words KEYWORDS abuse bad dirty words vulgar swear slang drugs sex profane abusive profanity vulgarity swearing sexual slurs SYNOPSIS require Bad::Words; my $wordref = once Bad::Words qw(add words); my $wordref = new Bad::Words qw(add more words); my $wordref = newthrd Bad::Words qw(add words); my $updated = $wordref->remove(qw( words to remove )); my $numberOfWords = $updated->count; DESCRIPTION This module returns an array REF to an alphabetically sorted list of LOWER CASE of bad words. You can add more words during initiliazation with once or new newthrd. The list contains American dirty words, swear words, etc... WORD SOURCES The words are taken from the public domain, internet sites and the imagination of contributors. ========================================= http://fffff.at/googles-official-list-of-bad-words/ The contents of the site are all in the public domain. You may enjoy, use, modify, snipe about and republish all F.A.T. media and technologies as you see fit. ========================================= http://urbanoalvarez.es/blog/2008/04/04/bad-words-list/ A public forum ========================================= http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-content-filter-list-of-swear-words posted to http://www.ourchangingglobe.com/misc/badwords-comma.txt GPL2V2 ========================================= USAGE my $wordref = new Bad::Words qw( new swear words ); my $updated = $wordref->remove(qw( these words )); my $badwords = join '|' @$updated; my $paragraph= 'a bunch of text...'; if ($paragraph =~ /($badwords)/i) { print "paragraph contains badword '$1'\n"; } DESCRIPTION * $wordref = new Bad::Words qw(optional list of more words); This method converts all words in the combined lists to lower case, make the list unique, sorts it and returns a blessed reference. input: a reference to or a list of optional additional bad words return: reference to word list * $wordref = once Bad::Words qw(optional list of more words); This method performs the new operation once and on subsequent calls, it just returns the pre-computed reference. input: a reference to or a list of optional additional bad words return: reference to word list * $wordref = newthrd Bad::Words qw(optional list of words); WARNING: once and new store the list reference in lexical variable in the module. newthrd does not do this. once returns the stored variable if it is initialized. If you want thread safe, do not use once and new. This method recalculates the list on every call. input: a reference to or a list of optional additional bad words return: reference to word list * $updated = $wordref->remove list; This method removes words from the bad word list. input: a reference to or a list of words to remove from bad word list return: updated reference * $numberOfWords = $wordref->count; This method returns the number of unique words in the bad word list. input: none return: number of words AUTHOR Michael Robinton COPYRIGHT Copyright 2013, Michael Robinton All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2. You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program in the file named "Copying". If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA or visit their web page on the internet at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.