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

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NAME

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

COPYRIGHT

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Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

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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

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	MANIFEST: String.pm
	PROJECT: meta
	VERSION: 0.01

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

FUNCTIONS

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

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

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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

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None.

BUGS

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None.

AUTHOR

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

HISTORY

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	0.00 MV more pdmt stuff
	0.01 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

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strict(3)

TODO

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-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 ?

Meta documentation Contained in the Meta distribution. 
#!/bin/echo This is a perl module and should not be run

package Meta::Types::String;

use strict qw(vars refs subs);

our($VERSION,@ISA);
$VERSION="0.01";
@ISA=qw();

#sub new($);
#sub new_stri($);
#sub get_text($);
#sub set_text($$);
#sub print($$);
#sub cmp($$);
#sub TEST($);

#__DATA__

sub new($) {
	my($class)=@_;
	my($self)={};
	bless($self,$class);
	$self->{TEXT}=defined;
	return($self);
}

sub new_stri($$) {
	my($class,$text)=@_;
	my($self)={};
	bless($self,$class);
	$self->{TEXT}=$text;
	return($self);
}

sub get_text($) {
	my($self)=@_;
	return($self->{TEXT});
}

sub set_text($$) {
	my($self,$text)=@_;
	$self->{TEXT}=$text;
}

sub print($$) {
	my($self,$file)=@_;
	print $file "string text is [".$self->get_text()."]\n";
}

sub cmp($$) {
	my($self,$obje)=@_;
	return($self->get_text() cmp $obje->get_text());
}

sub TEST($) {
	my($context)=@_;
	return(1);
}

1;

__END__