Text-FixedWidth

Easy OO manipulation of fixed width text files.

  use Text::FixedWidth;

  my $fw = new Text::FixedWidth;
  $fw->set_attributes(qw(
     fname            undef  %10s
     lname            undef  %-10s
     points           0      %04d
  ));

  $fw->parse(string => '       JayHannah    0003');
  $fw->get_fname;               # Jay
  $fw->get_lname;               # Hannah
  $fw->get_points;              # 0003

  $fw->set_fname('Chuck');
  $fw->set_lname('Norris');
  $fw->set_points(17);
  $fw->string;                  # '     ChuckNorris    0017'


INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

       perl Makefile.PL
       make
       make test
       make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

   perldoc Text::FixedWidth

You can also look for information at:

   RT, CPAN's request tracker
       http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Text-FixedWidth

   AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
       http://annocpan.org/dist/Text-FixedWidth

   CPAN Ratings
       http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Text-FixedWidth

   Search CPAN
       http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-FixedWidth

   Source code
       http://github.com/jhannah/text-fixedwidth


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Jay Hannah

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.