NAME

Meta::Types::String - data structure that represents a string.

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: String.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.00

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Types::String qw();
my($string)=Meta::Types::String->new();
$string->set_text("mark");

DESCRIPTION

This is a library to let you create a set like data structure.

FUNCTIONS

new($)
new_stri($)
get_text($)
set_text($$)
print($$)
cmp($$)
TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

new($)

Gives you a new String object.

new_stri($$)

This method is a constructor for the Meta::Types::String object giving you a string object initialized to the content you supplied.

get_text($)

This returns the text of the current string.

set_text($$)

This will set the text of the current string.

print($$)

This will print the current string to the specified file.

cmp($$)

This method compares the string received to another string.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV more pdmt stuff

SEE ALSO

strict(3)

TODO

-add a lot more methods to this object (catenation, searching, splitting etc...).

-remove this object from DS (it's not a data structure). Maybe DT for DataType ?