NAME

Astro::Catalog::IO::TST - Standard Tab Separated Table format I/O

SYNOPSIS

    $cat = Astro::Catalog::IO::TST->_read_catalog(\@lines);
    \@lines = Astro::Catalog::IO::TST->_write_catalog($cat);

DESCRIPTION

Performs IO for catalogs that use the standard Tab Separated Table (TST) format. The TST format is commonly returned by astronomical catalog servers that use the Astronomical Catalog Library (ACL) format, although it is also perfectly reasonable to read and write this format to disk.

FORMAT

The TST format is specified in a number of documents. For example SSN/75 [http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/ssn75.htx//ssn75.html] by Clive Davenhall.

SEE ALSO

Astro::Catalog, Astro::Catalog::IO::Simple.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License.

AUTHORS

Alasdair Allan <aa@astro.ex.ac.uk> Tim Jenness <tjenness@cpan.org>