Package: set-intspan-pm Version: 1.08 Revision: 1 Type: perl Description: Manage sets of integers for long runs of ints License: Artistic Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Set-IntSpan/ Maintainer: Blair Zajac # Unpack Phase. Source: mirror:cpan:authors/id/S/SW/SWMCD/Set-IntSpan-%v.tar.gz Source-MD5: 9d44f23bd2e4f3852e53f703f73fc699 # Install Phase. UpdatePOD: true DocFiles: Changes MANIFEST README # Documentation. DescDetail: << Set::IntSpan manages sets of integers. It is optimized for sets that have long runs of consecutive integers. These arise, for example, in .newsrc files, which maintain lists of articles: alt.foo: 1-21,28,31 alt.bar: 1-14192,14194,14196-14221 Sets are stored internally in a run-length coded form. This provides for both compact storage and efficient computation. In particular, set operations can be performed directly on the encoded representation. <<