NAME

Finnigan::GenericDataDescriptor -- a decoder for GenericDataDescriptor, a key to decoding GenericRecord fields

SYNOPSIS

  use Finnigan;
  my $d = Finnigan::GenericDataDescriptor->decode(\*INPUT);
  say d->type;
  say d->label;

DESCRIPTION

GenericDataDescriptor stores information about the type, size and name of a data element in a generic data record.

METHODS

decode($stream): The constructor method
type: Get the element type (see Known data types)
length: Get the size of the element represented by this descriptor
label: Get the element's label. It is the same label that Thermo uses in their GUI, such as Xcalibur.
definition: Returns an appropriate decoder template based on descriptor type
stringify: Make a short string representation of the descriptor

AUTHOR

Gene Selkov, <selkovjr@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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.

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