NAME
Finnigan::InstID -- a decoder for InstID, a set of instrument identifiers
SYNOPSIS
use Finnigan;
my $inst = Finnigan::InstID->decode(\*INPUT);
say $inst->model;
say $inst->serial_number;
say $inst->software_version;
$inst->dump;
DESCRIPTION
InstID is a static (fixed-size) structure containing several instrument identifiers and some unknown data.
The identifiers include the model name, the serial number and the software version.
METHODS
- decode($stream)
 - 
The constructor method
 - model
 - 
Get the first copy of the model attribute (there always seem to be two of them)
 - serial_number
 - 
Get the instrument's serial number
 - software_version
 - 
Get the version of software that created the data file
 - stringify
 - 
Concatenate all IDs in a single line of text
 
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Gene Selkov, <selkovjr@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2010 by Gene Selkov
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.