NAME

Meta::Utils::Parse::Text - library to help you parse text files.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 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: Text.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.27

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::Parse::Text qw();
        my($prase)=Meta::Utils::Parse::Text->new();

DESCRIPTION

This module helps you in parsing text files. You construct a parser, give it a text file and loop until its over each time getting the current line from it... You can also init the parser from a process and so get the process output in a pipe without having to temporarily store it. This enables you to get the output of a process much cleaner.

FUNCTIONS

        new($)
        init_file($$)
        init_proc($$)
        get_over($)
        get_line($)
        next($)
        fini($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

new($)

This function constrcuts a new parser object.

init_file($$)

This function initializes the parser. This function receives: 0. A parser object to work with. 1. A file name to work with.

init_proc($$)

This function initializes the parser from a process instead of a file.

get_over($)

This function returns whether the current parser is over or not. This function receives: 0. A parser object to work with.

get_line($)

This function returns the current line from the parser. This function receives: 0. A parser object to work with.

get_numb($)

This function return the current line number from the parser. This function receives: 0. A parser object to work with.

next($)

This moves the parser to the next line. This function receives: 0. A parser object to work with.

fini($)

This methos wraps up the object closing any opened files, processes etc.. This function receives: 0. A parser object to work with.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mark2776@yahoo.com
        WWW: http://www.geocities.com/mark2776
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV initial code brought in
        0.01 MV bring databases on line
        0.02 MV make quality checks on perl code
        0.03 MV more perl checks
        0.04 MV check that all uses have qw
        0.05 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
        0.06 MV more on tests/more checks to perl
        0.07 MV fix all tests change
        0.08 MV change new methods to have prototypes
        0.09 MV correct die usage
        0.10 MV perl code quality
        0.11 MV more perl quality
        0.12 MV chess and code quality
        0.13 MV more perl quality
        0.14 MV perl documentation
        0.15 MV more perl quality
        0.16 MV perl qulity code
        0.17 MV more perl code quality
        0.18 MV revision change
        0.19 MV languages.pl test online
        0.20 MV perl packaging
        0.21 MV PDMT
        0.22 MV md5 project
        0.23 MV database
        0.24 MV perl module versions in files
        0.25 MV movies and small fixes
        0.26 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.27 MV more thumbnail issues

SEE ALSO

Nothing.

TODO

Nothing.