NAME

       Data::TableReader::Decoder - Base class for table decoders

VERSION

       version 0.021

DESCRIPTION

       This is an abstract base class describing the API for decoders.

       A decoder's job is to iterate table rows of a file containing tabular data.  If a file provides multiple
       tables of data (such as worksheets, or <TABLE> tags) then the decode should also support the
       "next_dataset" method.

ATTRIBUTES

   filename
       Set by TableReader.  Useful for logging.

   file_handle
       Set by TableReader.  This is what the iterator should parse.

METHODS

   iterator
       This must be implemented by the subclass, to return an instance of Data::TableReader::Iterator.  The
       iterator should return an arrayref each time it is called, and accept one optional argument of a "slice"
       needed from the record.  All decoder iterators return arrayrefs, so the slice should be an arrayref of
       column indicies equivalent to the perl syntax

         @row[@$slice]

AUTHOR

       Michael Conrad <mike@nrdvana.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2024 by Michael Conrad.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.

perl v5.38.2                                       2024-06-21                    Data::TableReader::Decoder(3pm)