Bio::Annotation Comment
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Summary
Bio::Annotation::Comment - A comment object, holding text
Package variables
No package variables defined.
Inherit
Bio::AnnotationI Bio::Root::Root
Synopsis
    $comment = Bio::Annotation::Comment->new();
    $comment->text("This is the text of this comment");
    $annotation->add_Annotation('comment', $comment);
Description
A holder for comments in annotations, just plain text. This is a very simple
object, and justifiably so.
Methods
newDescriptionCode
as_textDescriptionCode
hash_treeDescriptionCode
tagnameDescriptionCode
textDescriptionCode
Methods description
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 Title   : new
 Usage   : $comment = Bio::Annotation::Comment->new( '-text' => 'some text for this comment');
 Function: This returns a new comment object, optionally with
           text filed
 Example :
 Returns : a Bio::Annotation::Comment object
 Args    : a hash with -text optionally set
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 Title   : as_text
 Usage   :
 Function:
 Example :
 Returns : 
 Args    :
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 Title   : hash_tree
 Usage   :
 Function:
 Example :
 Returns : 
 Args    :
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 Title   : tagname
 Usage   : $obj->tagname($newval)
 Function: Get/set the tagname for this annotation value.

           Setting this is optional. If set, it obviates the need to
           provide a tag to Bio::AnnotationCollectionI when adding
           this object. When obtaining an AnnotationI object from the
           collection, the collection will set the value to the tag
           under which it was stored unless the object has a tag
           stored already.

 Example : 
 Returns : value of tagname (a scalar)
 Args    : new value (a scalar, optional)
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 Title   : text
 Usage   : $value = $self->text($newval)
 Function: get/set for the text field. A comment object
           just holds a single string which is accessible through
           this method
 Example : 
 Returns : value of text
 Args    : newvalue (optional)
Methods code
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sub new {
  my($class,@args) = @_;

  my $self = $class->SUPER::new(@args);
  my ($text,$tag) = $self->_rearrange([qw(TEXT TAGNAME)], @args);

  defined $text && $self->text($text);
  defined $tag && $self->tagname($tag);

  return $self;
}
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sub as_text {
   my ($self) = @_;

   return "Comment: ".$self->text;
}
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sub hash_tree {
    my $self = shift;
   
    my $h = {};
    $h->{'text'} = $self->text;
    return $h;
}
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sub tagname {
    my ($self,$value) = @_;
    if( defined $value) {
	$self->{'tagname'} = $value;
    }
    return $self->{'tagname'};
}
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sub text {
   my ($self,$value) = @_;
   if( defined $value) {
      $self->{'text'} = $value;
    }
    return $self->{'text'};
}
General documentation
AUTHOR - Ewan Birney Top
Email birney@ebi.ac.uk
APPENDIXTop
The rest of the documentation details each of the object
methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _
AnnotationI implementing functionsTop
Specific accessors for CommentsTop