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NAME

FileIO

SYNOPSIS

use FileIO;

use FileIO qw(:all);

DESCRIPTION

FIleIO class provides following methods:

new, Close, Open, SetMode

FleIO class serves as a base class for all classes involved in file IO. It is derived from ObjectProperty base class which provides methods not explictly defined in Atom or ObjectProperty class using Perl's AUTOLOD functionality. These methods are generated on-the-fly for a specified object property:

METHODS

new

$NewFileIO = new FileIO(%NamesAndValues);

Using specified FileIO property names and values hash, new method creates a new object and returns a reference to a newly created FileIO object. By default, the following properties are initialized:

Name = '';
Mode = 'Read';
Status = 0;
FileHandle = '';

Close

$FileIO->Close();

Close open file and returns FileIO

Open

$FileIO->Open();

Opens the file using file Name and Mode and returns FileIO

SetMode

$FileIO->SetName($Mode);

Sets up file Mode and returns FileIO Default Mode value: Read. Supported Mode values:

Read, Write, Append, <, >, >>, r, w, a

AUTHOR

Manish Sud

SEE ALSO

MoleculeFileIO.pm, MDLMolFileIO.pm, SDFileIO.pm

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Manish Sud. All rights reserved.

This file is part of MayaChemTools.

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