STAR::Dictionary - Perl extension for handling dictionaries that were
parsed from STAR compliant files.
This documentation refers to version 0.56 of this module.
use STAR::Dictionary;
$dict_obj = STAR::Dictionary->new(-file=>$file);
@items_in_dict = $dict_obj->get_save_blocks;
This package contains class and object methods for Dictionary objects
created by STAR::Parser. This class is a sub class of STAR::DataBlock. It
supports all methods from STAR::DataBlock (see related documentation), as
well as the additional method get_save_blocks.
Usage: @save_blocks = $dict_obj->get_save_blocks;
This methods returns an array with all save_ blocks found in the Dictionary
object. Each item defined in the dictionary is described within a save
block. In addition, items pertaining to the dictionary itself (such as
_dictionary.version) are found outside of save blocks in the dictionary
file. In the data structure of a Dictionary object, these items are
gathered in a $s='-' save block.
Wolfgang Bluhm, mail@wbluhm.com
Thanks to Phil Bourne, Helge Weissig, Anne Kuller, Doug Greer, Michele
Bluhm, and others for support, help, and comments.
Copyright (c) 2000 Wolfgang Bluhm, San Diego Supercomputer Center,
University of California, San Diego. All rights reserved. This program is
free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
STAR::Parser, STAR::DataBlock.