NAME

Chess::FIDE::Player - Parse player data from FIDE Rating List.

SYNOPSIS

  use Chess::FIDE::Player qw(@FIDE_field);
  my $player = Chess::FIDE::Player->new(%param);
  print $player->id() . "\n";
  $player->value('field');

DESCRIPTION

Chess::FIDE::Player - Parse player data from FIDE Rating List. FIDE is the International Chess Federation that every quarter of the year releases a list of its rated members. The list contains about fifty thousand entries. This module provides means of translation of every entry into a perl object containing all the fields.

Constructor

$player = Chess::FIDE::Player->new(%param);

The constructor creates a hash reference, blesses it and fills it with parameters passed in %param. The parameters should be fields corresponding to @FIDE_field (see section 'EXPORT'). If a field is not defined, a default value contained in %init is used, and if it is the 'id' field, the next default id is increased by one.

value

$player->value('field'); $player->value('field',$value);

First one retrieves a field in the $player object. If the field is not valid (i.e. not contained in @FIDE_field, an undef is returned. Second one sets the field to $value, and again in case of an invalid field undef is returned. Otherwise the new value of the field is returned.

EXPORT

@FIDE_field

 - array of valid fields for the Player object.

SEE ALSO

Chess::FIDE http://www.fide.com

AUTHOR

Roman M. Parparov, <romm@empire.tau.ac.il>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Roman M. Parparov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

Fide Rating List is Copyright (C) by International Chess Federation http://www.fide.com