NAME

Meta::Utils::Opts::Sopt - Object to store a definition for a command line option.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Sopt.pm PROJECT: meta

SYNOPSIS

package foo; use Meta::Utils::Opts::Sopt qw(); my($sopt)=Meta::Utils::Opts::Sopt-new();> $sopt-set_name("name");>

DESCRIPTION

This object is used by the Opts object to store information about a single command line argument.

EXPORTS

new($) get_name($) set_name($$) get_desc($) set_desc($$) get_type($) set_type($$) get_defs($) set_defs($$) get_poin($) set_poin($$) get_valu($) set_valu($$) get_enum($) set_enum($$) verify($$) print($$)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

new($)

This gives you a new Sopt object.

get_name($)
set_name($$)

This will set the name for the current object.

get_desc($)

This returns the description for the current object.

set_desc($$)

This will set the description for the current object.

get_type($)

This method returns the type of the current object.

set_type($$)

This method will set the type of the current object.

get_defa($)

This method will returns the default value of the current object.

set_defa($$)

This method will set the default value of the current object.

get_poin($)

This method will return the pointer of the current object.

set_opti($$)

This method will set the pointer of the current object.

get_valu($)

This method will retrieve the current value of the current object.

set_valu($$)

This method will set the current value of the current object.

get_enum($)

This method will retrieve the current enum of the current object.

set_enum($$)

This method will set the current enum of the current object.

verify($$)

This will run sanity checks on the value inside.

print($$)

This prints out the current Sopt object.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Mark Veltzer <mark2776@yahoo.com>

HISTORY

start of revision info 1 Sun Jan 7 18:17:29 2001 MV make Meta::Utils::Opts object oriented 2 Tue Jan 9 19:29:31 2001 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation 3 Tue Jan 9 22:40:39 2001 MV add enumerated types to options 4 Wed Jan 10 12:05:55 2001 MV more on tests/more checks to perl 5 Fri Jan 12 15:53:19 2001 MV change new methods to have prototypes 6 Sun Jan 28 02:34:56 2001 MV perl code quality 7 Sun Jan 28 13:51:26 2001 MV more perl quality 8 Tue Jan 30 03:03:17 2001 MV more perl quality 9 Wed Jan 31 15:28:22 2001 MV get basic Simul up and running 10 Sat Feb 3 23:41:08 2001 MV perl documentation 11 Mon Feb 5 03:21:02 2001 MV more perl quality 12 Tue Feb 6 01:04:52 2001 MV perl qulity code 13 Tue Feb 6 07:02:13 2001 MV more perl code quality 14 Tue Feb 6 22:19:51 2001 MV revision change 14 Thu Feb 8 00:23:21 2001 MV betern general cook schemes end of revision info

SEE ALSO

Nothing.

TODO

-add set type.

-add limited range intergers.

-add regular expression match limited strings.

-add a write_file type which is a file that could be written (as opposed to a file which doesnt exist in new_file).

-add clean character strings types (only nice characters...).