Astro::FITS::Header::Item - A card image from a FITS header


Astro-FITS-Header documentation Contained in the Astro-FITS-Header distribution.

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NAME

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Astro::FITS::Header::Item - A card image from a FITS header

SYNOPSIS

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  $item = new Astro::FITS::Header::Item( Card => $card );

  $item = new Astro::FITS::Header::Item( Keyword => $keyword,
					 Value => $value,
					 Comment => $comment,
					 Type => 'int'
				       );

  $value = $item->value();
  $comment = $item->comment();

  $card = $item->card();

  $card = "$item";




DESCRIPTION

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Stores information about a FITS header item (in the FITS standard these are called Card Images). FITS Card Images can be parsed and broken into their component keyword, values and comments. Card Images can also be created from its components keyword, value and comment.

METHODS

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Constructor

new

Create a new instance. Optionally can be given a hash containing information from a header item or the card image itself.

  $item = new Astro::FITS::Header::Item( Card => $card );

  $item = new Astro::FITS::Header::Item( Keyword => $keyword,
				         Value => $value );

The list of allowed hash keys is documented in the configure method.

Returns undef if the information supplied was insufficient to generate a valid header item.

copy

Make a copy of an Astro::FITS::Header::Item object.

  $newitem = $item->copy;

Accessor Methods

keyword

Return (or set) the value of the keyword associated with the FITS card.

  $keyword = $item->keyword();
  $item->keyword( $key );

When a new value is supplied any card in the cache is invalidated.

Supplied value is always upper-cased.

value

Return (or set) the value of the value associated with the FITS card.

  $value = $item->value();
  $item->value( $val );

When a new value is supplied any card in the cache is invalidated.

If the value is an Astro::FITS::Header object, the type is automatically set to "HEADER".

comment

Return (or set) the value of the comment associated with the FITS card.

  $comment = $item->comment();
  $item->comment( $comment );

When a new value is supplied any card in the cache is invalidated.

type

Return (or set) the value of the variable type associated with the FITS card.

  $type = $item->type();
  $item->type( "INT" );

Allowed types are "LOGICAL", "INT", "FLOAT", "STRING", "COMMENT", "HEADER" and "UNDEF".

The special type, "HEADER", is used to specify that this item refers to a subsidiary header (eg a header in an MEFITS file or a header in an NDF in an HDS container). See also the subhdrs method in Astro::FITS::Header for an alternative way of specifying a sub-header.

The type is case-insensitive, but will always be returned up-cased.

card

Return (or set) the 80 character header card associated with this object. It is created if there is no cached version.

  $card = $item->card();

If a new card is supplied it will only be accepted if it is 80 characters long or fewer. The string is padded with spaces if it is too short. No attempt (yet) )is made to shorten the string if it is too long since that may require a check to see if the value is a string that must be shortened with a closing single quote. Returns undef on assignment failure (else returns the supplied string).

  $status = $item->card( $card );

undef is returned if there is insufficient information in the object to create a new card. Can assign undef to clear the cache.

This method is called automatically when attempting to stringify the object.

 $card = "$item";

General Methods

configure

Configures the object from multiple pieces of information.

  $item->configure( %options );

Takes a hash as argument with the following keywords:

Card

If supplied, the value is assumed to be a standard 80 character FITS header card. This is sent to the parse_card method directly. Takes priority over any other key.

If it is an Astro::FITS::Header::Item it will be copied rather than parsed.

Keyword

Used to specify the keyword associated with this object.

Value

Used to specify the value associated with this FITS item.

Comment

Used to specify the comment associated with this FITS item.

Type

Used to specify the variable type. See the type method for more details. A type will be guessed if one is not supplied. The guess may well be wrong.

Does nothing if these keys are not supplied.

freeze

Method to return a blessed reference to the object so that we can store ths object on disk using Data::Dumper module.

parse_card

Parse a FITS card image and store the keyword, value and comment into the object.

  ($key, $val, $com) = $item->parse_card( $card );

Returns an empty list on error.

equals

Compares this Item with another and returns true if the keyword, value, type and comment are all equal.

  $isident = $item->equals( $item2 );

SEE ALSO

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Astro::FITS::Header

COPYRIGHT

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AUTHORS

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Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>, Alasdair Allan <aa@astro.ex.ac.uk>


Astro-FITS-Header documentation Contained in the Astro-FITS-Header distribution.
package Astro::FITS::Header::Item;

use strict;
use overload (
	      '""'       =>   'overload_kluge'
	      );

use vars qw/ $VERSION /;
use Carp;

$VERSION = 3.01;

sub new {
  my $proto = shift;
  my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;

  my $item = {
	      Keyword => undef,
	      Comment => undef,
	      Value => undef,
	      Type => undef,
	      Card => undef,  # a cache
	     };

  bless $item, $class;

  # If we have arguments configure the object
  $item->configure( @_ ) if @_;

  return $item;
}

sub copy {
  my $self = shift;
  my %copy = %$self;
  return bless \%copy, ref( $self );
}

sub keyword {
  my $self = shift;
  if (@_) {
    $self->{Keyword} = uc(shift);
    $self->{Card} = undef;
  }
  return $self->{Keyword};
}

sub value {
  my $self = shift;
  if (@_) {
    my $value = shift;
    $self->{Value} = $value;
    $self->{Card} = undef;

    if (UNIVERSAL::isa($value,"Astro::FITS::Header" )) {
      $self->type( "HEADER" );
    } elsif (defined $self->type && $self->type eq 'HEADER') {
      # HEADER is only valid if we really are a HEADER
      $self->type(undef);
    }

  }
  return $self->{Value};
}

sub comment {
  my $self = shift;
  if (@_) {
    $self->{Comment} = shift;
    $self->{Card} = undef;
  }
  return $self->{Comment};
}


sub type {
  my $self = shift;
  if (@_) {
    my $type = shift;
    $type = uc($type) if defined $type;
    $self->{Type} = $type;
  }
  return $self->{Type};
}


# This is required because overloaded methods are called with
# extra arguments and card() can not tell the difference between
# an undef value and a stringify request
sub overload_kluge {
  my $self = shift;
  return $self->card;
}

sub card {
  my $self = shift;
  if (@_) {
    my $card = shift;
    if (defined $card) {
      my $clen = length($card);
      # force to 80 characters
      if ($clen < 80) {
	$card = $card . (" "x(80-$clen));
      } elsif ($clen > 80) {
	$card = substr($card, 0, 80);
      }
    }
    # can assign undef to clear
    $self->{Card} = $card;
  }
  # We are returning a value. Create if not present
  # Since we are being called by stringify to set the object
  # we need to make sure we don't get into an endless loop
  # trying to create the string but not having the correct info
  # Especially important since stringify calls card().
  $self->{Card} = $self->_stringify unless defined $self->{Card};
  return $self->{Card};
}

sub configure {
  my $self = shift;
  my %hash = @_;

  if (exists $hash{'Card'}) {
    if (ref($hash{Card}) && $hash{Card}->isa("Astro::FITS::Header::Item")) {
      # low level populate - can not use copy since we already have a copy
      for my $k (keys %{$hash{Card}}) {
        $self->{$k} = $hash{Card}->{$k};
      }
    } else {
      $self->parse_card( $hash{'Card'});
    }
  } else {
    # Loop over the allowed keys storing the values
    # in the object if they exist
    for my $key (qw/Keyword Type Comment Value/) {
      my $method = lc($key);
      $self->$method( $hash{$key}) if exists $hash{$key};
    }

    # only set type if we have not been given a type
    if (!$self->type) {
      if (!$self->keyword && !$self->value) {
	# completely blank
	$self->type("BLANK");
      } elsif (!$self->keyword || $self->keyword =~ /^(COMMENT|HISTORY)$/) {
	# COMMENT, HISTORY, and blank cards are special
	$self->type('COMMENT')
      } else {
        my $type = $self->guess_type( $self->value );
        $self->type( $type ) if defined $type;
      }
    }

    # End cards are special, need only do a Keyword => 'END' to configure
    $self->type('END') if $self->keyword() eq 'END';
  }
}

sub freeze {
  my $self = shift;
  return bless $self, 'Astro::FITS::Header::Item';
}

# Fits standard specifies
# Characters 1:8  KEYWORD (trailing spaces)  Comment cards: COMMENT,
#                 HISTORY, blank, and HIERARCH are special.
#            9:10 "= "  for a valid value (unless comment keyword)
#            11:80 The Value   "/" used to indicate a comment

# HIERARCH keywords
#      This is a comment but used to store values in an extended,
#      hierarchical name space.  The keyword is the string before
#      the equals sign and ignoring trailing spaces.  The value
#      follows the first equals sign.  The comment is delimited by a
#      solidus following a string or a single value.   The HIERARCH
#      keyword may follow a blank keyword in columns 1:8..
#
# The value can contain:
#  STRINGS:
#      '  starting at position 12
#      A single quote represented as ''
#      Closing quote must be at position 20 or greater (max 80)
#      Trailing blanks are removed. Leading spaces in the quotes
#      are significant
#  LOGICAL
#      T or F in column 30. Translated to 1 or 0
#  Numbers
#      D is an allowed exponent as well as E

sub parse_card {
  my $self = shift;
  return () unless @_;

  my $card = shift;
  my $equals_col = 8;

  # Remove new line and pad card to 80 characters
  chomp($card);
#  $card = sprintf("%-80s", $card);

  # Value is only present if an = is found in position 9
  my ($value, $comment) = ('', '');
  my $keyword = uc(substr($card, 0, $equals_col));

  # HIERARCH special case.  It's a comment, but want to treat it as
  # a multi-word keyword followed by a value and/or comment.
  if ( $keyword eq 'HIERARCH' || $card =~ /^\s+HIERARCH/ ) {
    $equals_col = index( $card, "=" );
    $keyword = uc(substr($card, 0, $equals_col ));
  }
  # Remove leading and trailing spaces, and replace interior spaces
  # between the keywords with a single .
  $keyword =~ s/^\s+// if ( $card =~ /^\s+HIERARCH/ );
  $keyword =~ s/\s+$//;
  $keyword =~ s/\s+/./g;

  # update object
  $self->keyword( $keyword );

  # END cards are special
  if ($keyword eq 'END') {
    $self->comment(undef);
    $self->value(undef);
    $self->type( "END" );
    $self->card( $card ); # store it after storing indiv components
    return("END", undef, undef);
  }

  # This will be a blank line but will not trigger here if we
  # are padding to 80 characters
  if (length($card) == 0) {
    $self->type( "BLANK" );
    return( undef, undef, undef);
  }

  # Check for comment or HISTORY
  # If the card is not padded this may trigger a warning on the
  # substr going out of bounds
  if ($keyword eq 'COMMENT' || $keyword eq 'HISTORY' ||
      (substr($card,8,2) ne "= " && $keyword !~ /^HIERARCH/)) {

    # Store the type
    $self->type( "COMMENT" );

    # We have comments
    unless ( length( $card) <= 8 ) {
       $comment = substr($card,8);
       $comment =~ s/\s+$//;  # Trailing spaces
    } else {
       $comment = "";
    }

    # Alasdair wanted to store this as a value
    $self->comment( $comment );

    $self->card( $card ); # store it after storing indiv components
    return ($keyword, undef, $comment);
  }

  # We must have a value after '= '
  my $rest = substr($card, $equals_col+1);

  # Remove leading spaces
  $rest =~ s/^\s+//;

  # Check to see if we have a string
  if (substr($rest,0,1) eq "'") {

    $self->type( "STRING" );

    # Check for empty (null) string ''
    if (substr($rest,1,1) eq "'") {
      $value = '';
      $comment = substr($rest,2);
      $comment =~ s/^\s+\///;  # Delete everything before the first slash

    } else {
      # '' needs to be treated as an escaped ' when inside the string
      # Use index to search for an isolated single quote
      my $pos = 1;
      my $end = -1;
      while ($pos = index $rest, "'", $pos) {
	last if $pos == -1; # could not find a close quote

	# Check for the position after this and if it is a '
	# increment and loop again
	if (substr($rest, $pos+1, 1) eq "'") {
	  $pos += 2; # Skip past next one
	  next;
	}

	# Isolated ' so this is the end of the string
	$end = $pos;
	last;

      }

      # At this point we should have the end of the string or the
      # position of the last quote
      if ($end != -1) {

	# Value
	$value = substr($rest,1, $pos-1);

	# Replace '' with '
	$value =~ s/''/'/; #; '

	# Special case a blank string
	if ($value =~ /^\s+$/) {
	  $value = " ";
	} else {
	  # Trim
	  $value =~ s/\s+$//;
	}

	# Comment
	$comment = substr($rest,$pos+1); # Extract post string
	$comment =~ s/^\s+\///;  # Delete everything before the first slash
	$comment =~ s/\///;  # In case there was no space before the slash

      } else {
	# Never found the end so include all of it
	$value = substr($rest,1);
	# Trim
	$value =~ s/\s+$//;

	$comment = '';
      }

    }

  } else {
    # Non string - simply read the first thing before a slash
    my $pos = index($rest, "/");
    if ($pos == 0) {

      # No value at all
      $value  = undef;
      $comment = substr($rest, $pos+2);
      $self->type("UNDEF");

    } elsif ($pos != -1) {
      # Found value and comment
      $value = substr($rest, 0, $pos-1);

      # Check for case where / is last character
      if (length($rest) > ($pos + 1)) {
        $comment = substr($rest, $pos+2);
        $comment =~ s/\s+$//;
      } else {
        $comment = undef;
      }

    } else {
      # Only found a value
      $value = $rest;
      $comment = undef;
    }

    if (defined $value) {

      # Replace D or E with and e - D is not allowed as an exponent in perl
      $value =~ tr/DE/ee/;

      # Need to work out the numeric type
      if ($value eq 'T') {
	$value = 1;
	$self->type('LOGICAL');
      } elsif ($value eq 'F') {
	$value = 0;
	$self->type('LOGICAL');
      } elsif ($value =~ /\.|e/) {
	# float
	$self->type("FLOAT");
      } else {
	$self->type("INT");
      }

      # Remove trailing spaces
      $value =~ s/\s+$//;
    }
  }

  # Tidy up comment
  if (defined $comment) {
    if ($comment =~ /^\s+$/) {
      $comment  = ' ';
    } else {
      # Trim it
      $comment =~ s/\s+$//;
      $comment =~ s/^\s+//;
    }
  }

  # Store in the object
  $self->value( $value );
  $self->comment( $comment );

  # Store the original card
  # Must be done after storing val, comm etc
  $self->card( $card );

  # Value is allowed to be ''
  return($keyword, $value, $comment);

}

sub equals {
  my $self = shift;
  my $ref = shift;

  # Loop over the string keywords
  for my $method (qw/ keyword type comment /) {
    my $val1 = $self->$method;
    my $val2 = $ref->$method;

    if (defined $val1 && defined $val2) {
      # These are all string comparisons
      if ($val1 ne $val2) {
	return 0;
      }
    } elsif (!defined $val1 && !defined $val2) {
      # both undef so equal
    } else {
      # one undef, the other defined
      return 0;
    }
  }

  # value comparison will depend on type
  # we know the types are the same
  my $val1 = $self->value;
  my $val2 = $ref->value;
  my $type = $self->type;

  return 0 if ((defined $val1 && !defined $val2) ||
	       (defined $val2 && !defined $val1));
  return 1 if (!defined $val1 && !defined $val2);

  if ($type eq 'FLOAT' || $type eq 'INT') {
    return ( $val1 == $val2 );
  } elsif ($type eq 'STRING') {
    return ( $val1 eq $val2 );
  } elsif ($type eq 'LOGICAL') {
    if (($val1 && $val2) || (!$val1 && !$val2)) {
      return 1;
    } else {
      return 0;
    }
  } elsif ($type eq 'COMMENT') {
    # if we get to here we have a defined value so we should
    # check it even if COMMENT is meant to use COMMENT
    return ($val1 eq $val2);

  } elsif ($type eq 'HEADER') {
    my @items1 = $val1->allitems;
    my @items2 = $val2->allitems;

    # count the items
    return 0 if @items1 != @items2;

    for my $i (0..$#items1) {
      return 0 if ! $items1[$i]->equals( $items2[$i] );
    }
    return 1;

  } elsif ($type eq 'UNDEF') {
    # both are undef...
    return 1;
  } else {
    croak "Unable to compare items of type '$type'\n";
  }

  # somehow we got to the end
  return 0;
}


sub _stringify {
  my $self = shift;

  # Get the components
  my $keyword = $self->keyword;
  my $value = $self->value;
  my $comment = $self->comment;
  my $type = $self->type;

  # Special case for HEADER type
  if (defined $type && $type eq 'HEADER') {
    $type = "COMMENT";
    $comment = "Contains a subsidiary header";
  }

  # Sort out the keyword. This always uses up the first 8 characters
  my $card = sprintf("%-8s", $keyword);

  # End card and Comments first
  if (defined $type && $type eq 'END' ) {
    $card = sprintf("%-10s%-70s", $card, "");

  } elsif (defined $type && $type eq 'BLANK') {
    $card = " " x 80;
  } elsif (defined $type && $type eq 'COMMENT') {

    # Comments are from character 9 - 80
    $card = sprintf("%-8s%-72s", $card, (defined $comment ? $comment : ''));

  } elsif (!defined $type && !defined $value && !defined $comment) {

    # This is a blank line
    $card = " " x 80;

  } else {
    # A real keyword/value so add the "= "
    $card .= "= ";

    # Try to sort out the type if we havent got one
    # We can not find LOGICAL this way since we can't
    # tell the difference between 'F' and F
    # an undefined value is typeless
    unless (defined $type) {
      $type = $self->guess_type( $value );
    }

    # Numbers behave identically whether they are float or int
    # Logical is a number formatted as a "T" or "F"
    if ($type eq 'INT' or $type eq 'FLOAT' or $type eq 'LOGICAL' or
       $type eq 'UNDEF') {

      # Change the value for logical
      if ($type eq 'LOGICAL') {
	$value = ( ($value && ($value ne 'F')) ? 'T' : 'F' );
      }

      # An undefined value should simply propogate as an empty
      $value = '' unless defined $value;

      # A number can only be up to 67 characters long but
      # Should we raise an error if it is longer? We should
      # not truncate
      $value = substr($value,0,67);

      $value = (' 'x(20-length($value))).$value;

      # Translate lower case e to upper
      # Probably should test length of exponent to decide
      # whether we should be using D instead of E
      # [depends whether the argument is stringified or not]
      $value =~ tr /ed/ED/;

    } elsif ($type eq 'STRING') {

      # Check that a value is there
      # There is a distinction between '''' and nothing ''
      if (defined $value) {

	# Escape single quotes
	$value =~ s/'/''/g;  #';

	# chop to 65 characters
	$value = substr($value,0, 65);

	# if the string has less than 8 characters pad it to put the
	# closing quote at CHAR 20
	if (length($value) < 8 ) {
	   $value = $value.(' 'x(8-length($value))) unless length($value) == 0;
	}
	$value = "'$value'";

      } else {
	$value = ''; # undef is an empty FITS string
      }

      # Pad goes reverse way to a number
      $value = $value.(' 'x(20-length($value)));

    } else {
      carp("Type '$type' is not a recognized type. Header creation may be incorrect");
    }

    # Add the comment
    if (defined $comment && length($comment) > 0) {
      $card .= $value . ' / ' . $comment;
    } else {
      $card .= $value;
    }

    # Fix at 80 characters
    $card = substr($card,0,80);
    $card .= ' 'x(80-length($card));

  }

  # Return the result
  return $card;

}

sub guess_type {
  my $self = shift;
  my $value = shift;
  my $type;
  if (!defined $value) {
    $type = "UNDEF";
  } elsif ($value =~ /^\d+$/) {
    $type = "INT";
  } elsif ($value =~ /^(-?)(\d*)(\.?)(\d*)([EeDd][-\+]?\d+)?$/) {
    $type = "FLOAT";
  } else {
    $type = "STRING";
  }
  return $type;
}

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