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NAME

Finnigan::InstID -- a decoder for InstID, a set of instrument identifiers

SYNOPSIS

  use Finnigan;
  my $inst = Finnigan::InstID->decode(\*INPUT);
  say $inst->model;
  say $inst->serial_number;
  say $inst->software_version;
  $inst->dump;

DESCRIPTION

InstID is a static (fixed-size) structure containing several instrument identifiers and some unknown data.

The identifiers include the model name, the serial number and the software version.

METHODS

decode($stream)

The constructor method

model

Get the first copy of the model attribute (there always seem to be two of them)

serial_number

Get the instrument's serial number

software_version

Get the version of software that created the data file

stringify

Concatenate all IDs in a single line of text

SEE ALSO

uf-instrument

AUTHOR

Gene Selkov, <selkovjr@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010 by Gene Selkov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.