NAME

       Boulder::String - Read and write tag/value data from a string.

SYNOPSIS

          #!/bin/perl
          # Read a B<Stone> from stdin and create a string that can be
          # passed to a dumb sub, which doesn't know about Stones.
          use Boulder::Stream;
          use Boulder::String;

          my $stream = Boulder::Stream->newFh;

          # read a stone from stdin
          my $record = <$stream> );

             print $stream $record;
           }

DESCRIPTION

       Boulder::String provides access to Boulder IO hierarchical tag/value data.  Stone objects
       printed to the tied string are appended to the string in Boulder format.

Boulder::Stream METHODS

   $stream = Boulder::Stream->new($in_string,\$out_string);
       The new() method creates a new Boulder::String object.  You must provide an input string
       and a reference to an output string.  The input string may be empty.

   $stream->write_record($stone)
       Write the passed stone in Boulder IO format into $out_string.

AUTHOR

       Lincoln D. Stein <lstein@cshl.org>, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
       This module can be used and distributed on the same terms as Perl itself.

       Patches and bug fixes contributed by Bernhard Schmalhofer <bernhard@biomax.de>.

SEE ALSO

       Boulder, Boulder::Stream, Boulder::Blast, Boulder::Genbank, Boulder::Medline,
       Boulder::Unigene, Boulder::Omim, Boulder::SwissProt