NAME
Parse::AFP - IBM Advanced Function Printing Parser
VERSION
This document describes version 0.15 of Parse::AFP, released October 12, 2004.
SYNOPSIS
use Parse::AFP;
my $afp = Parse::AFP->new('input.afp');
while (my $rec = $afp->next_member) {
print $rec->dump;
# ...
$rec->refresh; # if modified
}
$afp->refresh; # if modified
$afp->write('output.afp');DESCRIPTION
This module processes IBM's AFP (Advanced Function Printing) files into an object hierarchy; each object may be individually modified, dumped into binary, or written back to another AFP file.
Running the bundled afpdump.pl on a AFP file will probably explain this module's behaviour better than reading the documentation.
METHODS
Methods below applies to all objects in the objects hierarchy.
new
Constructor. Takes either a filename, or a scalar reference to content.
dump
Returns the binary representation of the current object.
write
Takes a filename and writes the binary representation to it.
refresh
Regenerate binary representation from in-memory data from the object itself and its members. Also refreshes all uplevel parents.
members
Returns a list of member objects, if any.
next_member
Iterator for member objects.
parent
Returns the parent of this object, or undef if this is the toplevel object.
ACCESSORS
Each class may define additional accessors, in the form of FieldName and SetFieldName. There are no accessors for the toplevel Parse::AFP object.
AUTHORS
Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.