Section 5.3.6.1.2.  STAR::Dictionary

The STAR::Dictionary module contains class and object methods for Dictionary objects created by the STAR::Parser module, and is in fact a subclass of STAR::DataBlock (see next section). Since CIF dictionaries are fully compliant STAR files, they require little that is different from the methods developed for handling data files. The method get_save_blocks is provided to return an array of all save frames found in the Dictionary object.

In line 25 of the example, the method is called on each dictionary loaded from the input file (as described above, normally there will only be one). The method is combined with the Perl sort function to create an array of save frames from the dictionary, arranged in alphabetic order. All further manipulations of the contents of these save frames will use the methods of the generic STAR::DataBlock class.