Tie::File::AnyData::MultiRecord_CSV - Accessing groups of CSV records in a file via a Perl array.

    use Tie::File::AnyData::MultiRecord_CSV;

   ## Suppose a CSV file containing the following data:
   #  gene1 134123 541354 ini
   #  gene1 134125 614513 mid1
   #  gene1 164151 661451 mid2
   #  gene1 214315 233415 fin
   #  gene2 313415 614351 ini
   #  gene2 341513 341566 fin
   #  gene3 512341 665144 ini
   #  gene3 551645 667676 ini
   #  gene3 661445 777347 mid
   #  gene3 888513 918344 fin

    tie my @data_array, 'Tie::File::AnyData::MultiRecord_CSV', $datafile or die $!;
    print "$data_array[0]";
    # prints:
    #  gene1 134123 541354 ini
    #  gene1 134125 614513 mid1
    #  gene1 164151 661451 mid2
    #  gene1 214315 233415 fin

    untie @data_array;

    ## All the array operations are allowed:
    push @data_array, $rec; ## Append a CSV records at the end of the file
    unshift @data_array, $rec; ## Put CSV records at the beginning of the file
    my $rec = pop  @data_array; ## Remove the last group of CSV records of the file (assigned to $rec)
    my $rec = shift @data_array; ## Remove the first group of CSV records of the file (assigned to $rec)
    ... and so on.

Tie::File::AnyData::MultiRecord_CSV allows the management of groups of CSV records in a file via a Perl array through Tie::File::AnyData, so read the documentation of the latter module for further details on its internals. For the management of CSV records it uses the Parse::CSV module.

A group of CSV records is defined by some CSV lines that have a common key field. For example, if you have the following group of CSV lines in a file:

     aa1    bb1   cc1
     aa1    bb1   cc2
     aa1    bb2   cc3
     aa1    bb2   cc4
     aa2    bb3   cc5

Then, if you take key = 0 (first field), then, the fist record would be: aa1 bb1 cc1 aa1 bb1 cc2 aa1 bb2 cc3 aa1 bb2 cc4

With key = 1 (seconf field), the first record would be: aa1 bb1 cc1 aa1 bb1 cc2

Finally, with key = 2 (third field), then, the first record would be: aa1 bb1 cc1

This module accepts the same parameters as Tie::File plus:

field_sep : The character used to separate fields in the input file (defaults to "\t").

key : A number indicating the field that defines a group of CSV lines (defaults to "0").

  Miguel Pignatelli

  Please send any comment to: motif@pause.org

  The most recent version of this module, should be available at CPAN.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-tie-file-anydata-multirecord_csv at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rp.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportingBug.html?Queue=Tie-File-AnyData-MultiRecord_CSV.

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command:

     perldoc Tie::File::AnyData::MultiRecord_CSV

Copyright 2007 Miguel Pignatelli, all rights reserved.

This library is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This module comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.