The obvious name is...

I would like to see a more generic name. The Astro part might lead people to think it's an astronomy specific thing which it is not. We are using the FITS format (among other formats like PDS) for planetary data products. FITS is, after all, just another data format. Maybe AnyData::Format::FITS?

Cheers

Harry

PS I'm sure you've looked around/are aware of it, but I'm going to mention it anyway: There are already perl modules available to parse FITS files, like the wrapper of the CFITSIO lib and the PDL FITS reader (See fits libraries).

In reply to Re: Where does it FITS? by dHarry
in thread Where does it FITS? by GrandFather

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