NAME

Finnigan::FileHeader -- a decoder for Finnigan file headers

SYNOPSIS

  use Finnigan;
  my $header = Finnigan::FileHeader->decode(\*INPUT);
  say "$header";

DESCRIPTION

The key information contained in the Finnigan header is the file version number. Since the file structure varies from one version to another, the decoders must be aware of it.

METHODS

decode($stream)

The constructor method

version

Get the file version

audit_start

Get the start AuditTag object

audit_end

Get the end AuditTag object

tag

Get the header tag

stringify

Create a short string representation of the header data

SEE ALSO

uf-header

AUTHOR

Gene Selkov, <selkovjr@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010 by Gene Selkov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.