Icarus Class: FileType

Describes a flat file type (i.e. refers to the file extension, e.g .pdb). Databanks may have more than one flat file type, eg, databanks in PIR or GCG with 'ref'-files containing the sequence annotation and 'seq'-files with the sequence.

name   text   Symbolic name of the file. typeName     File extension name. searchName     A search string used for finding all files in the specified directory (only for file per entry databanks). Any number of wildcards ('*' - matches all, '?' matches all single character) may be used. maxline   132 fipVar   entryFip   Name of the Icarus variable containing the file address of the entry begin. shareWith FileType     The file type can be only logical and the actual file object shared with another file type. It is to pretend that input comes from two different files where in fact it doesn't.' fieldTokens   fields   Name of the token table that has one token for each data-field of the entry. saveName   none   none file name path   For databanks where each entry resides in a separate file where the file name cannot be inferred from the entry name. Option to request the whole or part of the file name to be saved in the IDX index. saveNameLength     Max. length of the name saved according to 'saveName'. singleEntry   n   y n   Selects a file has only one single entry. pipe     Format string (printf style) to create a command for processing the entry file before reading (eg, 'uncompress %%s').