s/\b(qu|[^\W0-9_aeiou]+)?(\w+)/$1?"$2\0$1ay":"$2\0ay"/egi;
####
package PigLatin;
use overload (
q{""} => sub {
(my $str = ${ $_[0] }) =~ tr/\0//d;
return $str;
},
fallback => 1,
);
sub to {
my ($class,$word) = @_;
$word =~ s/\b(qu|[^\W0-9_aeiou]+)?(\w+)/$1?"$2\0$1ay":"$2\0ay"/egi;
bless \$word, $class;
}
sub from {
my $word = substr ${ $_[-1] }, 0, -2;
# $word has the \0 in it
return join "", reverse split /\0/, $word;
}
1;
####
use PigLatin;
$plain = "Practical Extraction and Report Language";
$funny = to PigLatin $plain;
$reg = from PigLatin $funny;