NAME
Parse::AFP - Parser for IBM's Advanced Function Printing document format
VERSION
This document describes version 0.25 of Parse::AFP, released October 16,
2010.
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 this 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.
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