NAME

Search::Xapian::PositionIterator - Iterate over sets of positions.

DESCRIPTION

This iterator represents a stream of positions for a term. It overloads ++ for advancing the iterator, or you can explicitly call the inc method. This class also overloads 'eq', 'ne', '==', '!=', and "" (stringification).

METHODS

new

Constructor. Defaults to an uninitialized iterator.

clone
inc

Advance the iterator by one. (Called implictly by '++' overloading).

skip_to <tname>

Skip the iterator to term tname, or the first term after tname if tname isn't in the list of terms being iterated.

get_position

Returns the current position.

equal <term>

Checks if a term is the same as this term. Also overloaded to the 'eq' and '==' operators.

nequal <term>

Checks if a term is different from this term. Also overloaded to the 'ne' and '!=' operators.

get_termpos <term>

Return the term position the iterator is currently on. Also implemented as stringification.

get_description

Returns a string describing this object. (for introspection)

SEE ALSO

Search::Xapian,Search::Xapian::Document