name

Usage    - print $dbxref->name() or $dbxref->name($name)
Returns  - the dbxref name (string)
Args     - the dbxref name (string)
Function - gets/sets the dbxref name

description

Usage    - print $dbxref->description() or $dbxref->description($description)
Returns  - the dbxref description (string)
Args     - the dbxref description (string)
Function - gets/sets the dbxref description

modifier

Usage    - print $dbxref->modifier() or $dbxref->modifier($modifier)
Returns  - the optional trailing modifier (string)
Args     - the optional trailing modifier (string)
Function - gets/sets the optional trailing modifier

as_string

Usage    - print $dbxref->as_string()
Returns  - returns this dbxref ([name "description" {modifier}]) as string
Args     - none
Function - returns this dbxref as string

equals

Usage    - print $dbxref->equals($another_dbxref)
Returns  - either 1(true) or 0 (false)
Args     - the dbxref to compare with
Function - tells whether this dbxref is equal to the parameter

NAME CCO::Core::Dbxref - Reference structure. =head1 SYNOPSIS

use CCO::Core::Dbxref; use strict;

# three new dbxref's my $ref1 = CCO::Core::Dbxref->new; my $ref2 = CCO::Core::Dbxref->new; my $ref3 = CCO::Core::Dbxref->new;

$ref1->name("CCO:vm"); $ref1->description("this is a description"); $ref1->modifier("{opt=123}"); $ref2->name("CCO:ls"); $ref3->name("CCO:ea");

my $ref4 = $ref3;

my $ref5 = CCO::Core::Dbxref->new; $ref5->name("CCO:vm"); $ref5->description("this is a description"); $ref5->modifier("{opt=123}");

DESCRIPTION A dbxref object encapsules a reference for a universal.

AUTHOR

Erick Antezana, <erant@psb.ugent.be>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by erant

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.