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Net::DNS::RR::TXT(3)                 User Contributed Perl Documentation                Net::DNS::RR::TXT(3)



NAME
       Net::DNS::RR::TXT - DNS TXT resource record

SYNOPSIS
       "use Net::DNS::RR";

DESCRIPTION
       Class for DNS Text (TXT) resource records.

METHODS
       txtdata

           print "txtdata = ", $rr->txtdata, "\n";

       Returns the descriptive text as a single string, regardless of actual number of <character-string>
       elements.  Of questionable value.  Should be deprecated.

       Use "$txt->rdatastr()" or "$txt->char_str_list()" instead.

       char_str_list

        print "Individual <character-string> list: \n\t",
              join("\n\t", $rr->char_str_list());

       Returns a list of the individual <character-string> elements, as unquoted strings.  Used by
       TXT->rdatastr and TXT->rr_rdata.

FEATURES
       The RR.pm module accepts semi-colons as a start of a comment. This is to allow the RR.pm to deal with
       RFC1035 specified zonefile format.

       For some applications of the TXT RR the semicolon is relevant, you will need to escape it on input.

       Also note that you should specify the several character strings separately. The easiest way to do so
       is to include the whole argument in single quotes and the several character strings in double quotes.
       Double quotes inside the character strings will need to be escaped.

       my $TXTrr=Net::DNS::RR->new('txt2.t.net-dns.org.  60   IN      TXT  "Test1 \" \; more stuff"
       "Test2"');

       would result in $TXTrr->char_str_list())[0] containing 'Test1 " ; more stuff' and
       $TXTrr->char_str_list())[1] containing 'Test2'

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Michael Fuhr.

       Portions Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Chris Reinhardt.  Portions Copyright (c) 2005 Olaf Kolkman (NLnet
       Labs)

       All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
       perl(1), Net::DNS, Net::DNS::Resolver, Net::DNS::Packet, Net::DNS::Header, Net::DNS::Question,
       Net::DNS::RR, RFC 1035 Section 3.3.14



perl v5.8.8                                      2007-06-21                             Net::DNS::RR::TXT(3)