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our $VERSION = '1.02';

=head1 NAME

Clarion - Perl module for reading CLARION 2.1 data files

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is a perl module to access CLARION 2.1 files.
At the moment only read access to the files is implemented.
"Encrypted" (owned) files are processed transparently,
there is no need to specify the password of a file.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

	use Clarion;

	my $dbh=new Clarion "customer.dat";

	print $dbh->file_struct;

lib/Clarion.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

sub RECNEW  { 0x01; }	# bit 0 - new record
sub RECOLD  { 0x02; }	# bit 1 - old record
sub RECREV  { 0x04; }	# bit 2 - revised record
sub RECDEL  { 0x10; }	# bit 4 - deleted record
sub RECHLD  { 0x40; }	# bit 6 - record held

=item $h=new Clarion ["file.dat" [, 1]]

Create object for reading Clarion file. If file name is specified then
associate the DAT file with the object. "Encrypted" files are processed 
transparently, you do not need to specify the password of a file.

If the third argument (skipMemo) specified, memo field will not be 
processed at all.

=cut

sub new {
 my $self={};
 bless $self, shift;