NAME

Starlink::ATL::Region - Tools for AST regions.

SYNOPSIS

use Starlink::ATL::Region qw/merge_regions/;

my $cmp = merge_regions(\@regions);

DESCRIPTION

This module contains a utility subroutine for working with AST regions.

SUBROUTINES

merge_regions

Takes a reference to an array of AST regions and returns a single CmpRegion object. The CmpRegion is built in a tree manner rather than linearly to minimize the depth of the structure.

AUTHOR

Graham Bell <g.bell@jach.hawaii.edu>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2012 Science and Technology Facilities Council.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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