NAME¶

Search::Xapian::ValueIterator - Iterate over value slots in a document.

DESCRIPTION¶

This object represents a stream of document values. It overloads "++" for advancing the iterator, or you can explicitly call the "inc" method. This class also overloads "eq", "ne", "==", "!=", and "" (stringification).

METHODS¶

new

Constructor. Defaults to a uninitialized iterator.

clone

inc

Advance the iterator by one. (Called implictly by "++" overloading )

get_valueno

Return the number of the value slot at the current position.

get_value

Return the string in the value slot at current position. Also overloaded as the "" operator.

get_description

Returns a string describing this object.

equal <valueiterator>

Checks if a valueiterator is the same as this valueiterator. Also overloaded as the "eq" and "!=" operators.

nequal <valueiterator>

Checks if a valueiterator is different from this valueiterator. Also overloaded as the "ne" and "!=" operators.

SEE ALSO¶

Search::Xapian, Search::Xapian::Document