NAME

Finnigan::MethodFile -- a decoder for the outer MethodFile container

SYNOPSIS

  use Finnigan;

  my $mf = Finnigan::MethodFile->decode(\*INPUT);
  say $mf->header->version;
  say $mf->container->size;
  my $dirent = $mf->container->find($path);

DESCRIPTION

This object decodes the outer container for a Windows OLE2 directory which in turn contains a set of method files for various instruments, both in binary and text representations.

The outer container also contains a name translation table mapping the names of the instruments into the names used inside the method files.

METHODS

decode($stream)

The constructor method

header

Get the Finnigan::FileHeader object attached to the method file

n

Get the number of entries in the name translation table

translation_table

Get the name translation table

instrument_name($i)

Get the translation at index $i in the name translation table

file_size

Get the size of the Finnigan::OLE2File container

container

Get the Finnigan::OLE2File object

SEE ALSO

Finnigan::OLE2File

uf-meth

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.