NAME

       Heap::Elem::Str - String Heap Elements

SYNOPSIS

         use Heap::Elem::Str( StrElem );
         use Heap::Fibonacci;

         my $heap = Heap::Fibonacci->new;
         my $elem;

         foreach $i ( 'aa'..'bz' ) {
             $elem = StrElem( $i );
             $heap->add( $elem );
         }

         while( defined( $elem = $heap->extract_top ) ) {
             print "Smallest is ", $elem->val, "\n";
         }

DESCRIPTION

       Heap::Elem::Str is used to wrap string values into an element that can be managed on a
       heap.  The top of the heap will have the smallest element still remaining.  (See
       Heap::Elem::StrRev if you want the heap to always return the largest element.)

       The details of the Elem interface are described in Heap::Elem.

       The details of using a Heap interface are described in Heap.

AUTHOR

       John Macdonald, john@perlwolf.com

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1998-2007, O'Reilly & Associates.

       This code is distributed under the same copyright terms as perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Heap(3), Heap::Elem(3), Heap::Elem::StrRev(3).