Boulder::String(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      Boulder::String(3pm)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

	  #!/bin/perl
	  # Read a B<Stone> from stdin and create a string that can be
	  # passed to a dumb sub, which doesn't know about Stones.
	  use Boulder::Stream;
	  use Boulder::String;

	  my $stream = Boulder::Stream->newFh;

	  # read a stone from stdin
	  my $record = <$stream> );

	     print $stream $record;
	   }

DESCRIPTION

       Boulder::String provides access to Boulder IO hierarchical tag/value data.  Stone objects printed to the tied string are appended to the
       string in Boulder format.

Boulder::Stream METHODS
   $stream = Boulder::Stream->new($in_string,$out_string);
       The new() method creates a new Boulder::String object.  You must provide an input string and a reference to an output string.  The input
       string may be empty.

   $stream->write_record($stone)
       Write the passed stone in Boulder IO format into $out_string.

AUTHOR

       Lincoln D. Stein <lstein@cshl.org>, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.  This module can be used and distributed on the
       same terms as Perl itself.

       Patches and bug fixes contributed by Bernhard Schmalhofer <bernhard@biomax.de>.

SEE ALSO

       Boulder, Boulder::Stream, Boulder::Blast, Boulder::Genbank, Boulder::Medline, Boulder::Unigene, Boulder::Omim, Boulder::SwissProt

perl v5.10.1							    2000-12-04						      Boulder::String(3pm)