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.
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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 ?