Boulder::String(3)

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

   #!/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;
    }

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.
$stream = Boulder::Stream->new($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. Lincoln D. Stein <[email protected]>, 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 <[email protected]>. Boulder, Boulder::Stream, Boulder::Blast, Boulder::Genbank, Boulder::Medline, Boulder::Unigene, Boulder::Omim, Boulder::SwissProt