A version 0.08 ============== 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, 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. 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.