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Graph::Writer::Dot(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Graph::Writer::Dot(3pm) NAME
Graph::Writer::Dot - write out directed graph in Dot format SYNOPSIS
use Graph; use Graph::Writer::Dot; $graph = Graph->new(); # add edges and nodes to the graph $writer = Graph::Writer::Dot->new(); $writer->write_graph($graph, 'mygraph.dot'); DESCRIPTION
Graph::Writer::Dot is a class for writing out a directed graph in the file format used by the dot tool (part of the AT+T graphviz package). The graph must be an instance of the Graph class, which is actually a set of classes developed by Jarkko Hietaniemi. METHODS
new() Constructor - generate a new writer instance. $writer = Graph::Writer::Dot->new(); This doesn't take any arguments. write_graph() Write a specific graph to a named file: $writer->write_graph($graph, $file); The $file argument can either be a filename, or a filehandle for a previously opened file. SEE ALSO
http://www.graphviz.org/ The home page for the AT+T graphviz toolkit that includes the dot tool. Graph Jarkko Hietaniemi's modules for representing directed graphs, available from CPAN under modules/by-module/Graph/ Algorithms in Perl The O'Reilly book which has a chapter on directed graphs, which is based around Jarkko's modules. Graph::Writer The base-class for Graph::Writer::Dot AUTHOR
Neil Bowers <neil@bowers.com> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001-2012, Neil Bowers. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2001, Canon Research Centre Europe. All rights reserved. This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-02-14 Graph::Writer::Dot(3pm)