class Bio::GFF::GFF2::MetaData

Stores GFF2 meta-data.

Attributes

data [RW]

data of this entry

directive [RW]

Directive. Usually, one of “feature-ontology”, “attribute-ontology”, or “source-ontology”.

Public Class Methods

new (directive, data = nil)

Source

    # File lib/bio/db/gff.rb
769 def initialize(directive, data = nil)
770   @directive = directive
771   @data = data
772 end

Creates a new MetaData object

parse (line)

Source

    # File lib/bio/db/gff.rb
782 def self.parse(line)
783   directive, data = line.chomp.split(/\s+/, 2)
784   directive = directive.sub(/\A\#\#/, '') if directive
785   self.new(directive, data)
786 end

parses a line

Public Instance Methods

== (other)

Source

    # File lib/bio/db/gff.rb
796 def ==(other)
797   if self.class == other.class and
798       self.directive == other.directive and
799       self.data == other.data then
800     true
801   else
802     false
803   end
804 end

Returns true if self == other. Otherwise, returns false.

to_s ()

Source

    # File lib/bio/db/gff.rb
789 def to_s
790   d = @directive.to_s.gsub(/[\r\n]+/, ' ')
791   v = ' ' + @data.to_s.gsub(/[\r\n]+/, ' ') unless @data.to_s.empty?
792   "\#\##{d}#{v}\n"
793 end

string representation of this meta-data