A version 0.06
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NAME

ShiftJIS::String - Perl module to deal with Japanese strings 
in Shift_JIS encoding.

SYNOPSIS

  use ShiftJIS::String qw(substr index length);
  $str = 'プログラミング Perl';
  $len = length(substr($str, index($str, 'ラミ')));
   # $len == 9, length in characters of 'ラミング 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 5.005 or better is recommended.

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.