Raw content of Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::BitString =head1 LICENSE Copyright (c) 1999-2009 The European Bioinformatics Institute and Genome Research Limited. All rights reserved. This software is distributed under a modified Apache license. For license details, please see /info/about/code_licence.html =head1 CONTACT Please email comments or questions to the public Ensembl developers list at <ensembl-dev@ebi.ac.uk>. Questions may also be sent to the Ensembl help desk at <helpdesk@ensembl.org>. =cut =head1 NAME Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::BitString - bitstring object implementation =head1 DESCRIPTION This is an implementation of a bitstring object, taken from Damian Convey's book "Object Oriented Perl". =head1 METHODS =cut package Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::BitString; use strict; use warnings; no warnings 'uninitialized'; sub new { my $class = ref($_[0])||$_[0]; my $initbits = join '', map {$_?1:0} @_[1..$#_]; my $bs = pack 'b*', $initbits; bless \$bs, $class; } sub get { my ($self, $bitnum) = @_; return vec($$self,$bitnum,1); } sub set { my ($self, $bitnum, $newval) = @_; vec($$self,$bitnum,1) = $newval?1:0; } sub bitcount { 8 * length ${$_[0]}; } sub complement { my ($self) = @_; my $complement = ~$$self; bless \$complement, ref($self); } sub print_me { my ($self) = @_; for (my $i=0; $i < $self->bitcount(); $i++) { print $self->get($i); print ' ' unless ($i+1)%8; print "\n" unless ($i+1)%64; } print "\n"; } 1;