NAME

       Net::DNS::RR::TXT - DNS TXT resource record

SYNOPSIS

       "use Net::DNS::RR";

DESCRIPTION

       Class for DNS Text (TXT) resource records.

METHODS

   txtdata
           print "txtdata = ", $rr->txtdata, "\n";

       Returns the descriptive text as a single string, regardless of actual number of
       <character-string> elements.  Of questionable value.  Should be deprecated.

       Use "$txt->rdatastr()" or "$txt->char_str_list()" instead.

   char_str_list
        print "Individual <character-string> list: \n\t",
              join("\n\t", $rr->char_str_list());

       Returns a list of the individual <character-string> elements, as unquoted strings.  Used
       by TXT->rdatastr and TXT->rr_rdata.

       NB: rdatastr will return quoted strings.

FEATURES

       The RR.pm module accepts semi-colons as a start of a comment. This is to allow the RR.pm
       to deal with RFC1035 specified zonefile format.

       For some applications of the TXT RR the semicolon is relevant, you will need to escape it
       on input.

       Also note that you should specify the several character strings separately. The easiest
       way to do so is to include the whole argument in single quotes and the several character
       strings in double quotes. Double quotes inside the character strings will need to be
       escaped.

       my $TXTrr=Net::DNS::RR->new('txt2.t.net-dns.org.  60   IN      TXT  "Test1 \" \; more
       stuff"  "Test2"');

       would result in $TXTrr->char_str_list())[0] containing 'Test1 " ; more stuff' and
       $TXTrr->char_str_list())[1] containing 'Test2'

       Note that the rdatastr method (and therefore the print, and string method) returns the
       escaped format.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Michael Fuhr.

       Portions Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Chris Reinhardt.  Portions Copyright (c) 2005 Olaf
       Kolkman (NLnet Labs)

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

SEE ALSO

       perl(1), Net::DNS, Net::DNS::Resolver, Net::DNS::Packet, Net::DNS::Header,
       Net::DNS::Question, Net::DNS::RR, RFC 1035 Section 3.3.14