Corrected typos in the perl documentation

[pspp-builds.git] / perl-module / lib / PSPP.pm

diff --git a/perl-module/lib/PSPP.pm b/perl-module/lib/PSPP.pm
index 6fbae803a9b250cf3d0aa8aaccaebaaace00aba5..b84c311e21db8526e595208884925b62515149b9 100644 (file)
--- a/perl-module/lib/PSPP.pm
+++ b/perl-module/lib/PSPP.pm
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ None by default.
 
 =cut
 BEGIN {
-       do 'pspp-vers.pl' || die "No version set";
+       $PSPP::VERSION='0.7.2';
        require XSLoader;
        XSLoader::load('PSPP', $PSPP::VERSION);
 }
@@ -87,9 +87,15 @@ sub new
 
 =pod
 
+=head3 get_var_cnt ()
+
+Returns the number of variables in the dictionary.
+
 =head3 get_var ($idx)
 
 Returns the C<idx>th variable from the dictionary.
+Returns undef if C<idx> is greater than or equal to the number
+of variables in the dictionary.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -243,7 +249,7 @@ An integer denoting the number of decimal places for the format.
 
 =item width
 
-An integer denoting the number of width of the format.
+An integer denoting the width of the format.
 
 =back
 
@@ -355,6 +361,12 @@ sub set_value_labels
 Sets the missing values for the variable.  
 No more than three missing values may be specified.
 
+=head3 get_attributes()
+
+Returns a reference to a hash of the custom variable attributes.
+Each value of the hash is a reference to an array containing the 
+attribute values.
+
 =head3 get_name ()
 
 Returns the name of the variable.
@@ -457,7 +469,7 @@ Opens a system file for reading.
 
 Open is used to read data from an existing system file. 
 It creates and returns a PSPP::Reader object which can be used to read 
-data and dictionary information from <C>filename.
+data and dictionary information from C<filename>.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -483,9 +495,10 @@ Returns the dictionary associated with the reader.
 Retrieves the next case from the reader.
 This method returns an array of scalars, each of which are the values of 
 the data in the system file.
-The first call to <C>get_next_case after <C>open has been called retrieves
+The first call to C<get_next_case> after C<open> has been called retrieves
 the first case in the system file.  Each subsequent call retrieves the next
-case.  If there are no more cases to be read, the function returns undef.
+case.  If there are no more cases to be read, the function returns an empty
+list.
 
 If the case contains system missing values, these values are set to the 
 empty string.
@@ -497,7 +510,7 @@ values retrieved from a reader.
 
 =head3 PSPP::format_value ($value, $variable)
 
-Returns a scalar containing a string representing C<value> formatted accoring 
+Returns a scalar containing a string representing C<value> formatted according 
 to the print format of C<variable>.
 In the most common ussage,  C<value> should be a value of C<variable>.
 
@@ -519,7 +532,7 @@ John Darrington, E<lt>john@darrington.wattle.id.auE<gt>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
 
-Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 by Free Software Foundation
+Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 by Free Software Foundation
 
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by