1Boulder::String(3)    User Contributed Perl Documentation   Boulder::String(3)
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NAME

6       Boulder::String - Read and write tag/value data from a string.
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SYNOPSIS

9          #!/bin/perl
10          # Read a B<Stone> from stdin and create a string that can be
11          # passed to a dumb sub, which doesn't know about Stones.
12          use Boulder::Stream;
13          use Boulder::String;
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15          my $stream = Boulder::Stream->newFh;
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17          # read a stone from stdin
18          my $record = <$stream> );
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20             print $stream $record;
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DESCRIPTION

24       Boulder::String provides access to Boulder IO hierarchical tag/value
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Boulder::Stream METHODS

29       $stream = Boulder::Stream->new($in_string,\$out_string);
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31       The new() method creates a new Boulder::String object.  You must pro‐
32       vide an input string and a reference to an output string.  The input
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35       $stream->write_record($stone)
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37       Write the passed stone in Boulder IO format into $out_string.
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AUTHOR

40       Lincoln D. Stein <lstein@cshl.org>, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold
41       Spring Harbor, NY.  This module can be used and distributed on the same
42       terms as Perl itself.
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44       Patches and bug fixes contributed by Bernhard Schmalhofer <bern‐
45       hard@biomax.de>.
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SEE ALSO

48       Boulder, Boulder::Stream, Boulder::Blast, Boulder::Genbank, Boul‐
49       der::Medline, Boulder::Unigene, Boulder::Omim, Boulder::SwissProt
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53perl v5.8.8                       2000-06-08                Boulder::String(3)