Hi perlmonks.. I really need some help. Anyone of you know how to use the SWISS knife?? They are short cut for accessing database from SWISSProt bank. All the packages are written in Perl. I don't understand the main packages even : Entry.pm. The function fromText.. what does it actually do?? 
sub fromText {
  my $class = shift;
  my $text = shift;
  my $fullParse = shift;
  my $removeInternalComments = shift;
  my $lineObject;

  unless ($text) {
    confess "fromText called with an empty text reference.";
  };

  my $self = new $class;
  $self->{_text} = \$text;

  #handle internal comments and indentation
  if ($removeInternalComments) {
    my $indentation = SWISS::TextFunc::unindentLines (\$text);
    my $internalComments = SWISS::TextFunc::removeInternalComments(\$t
+ext);

    $self->{_indentation} = $indentation;
    $self->{_internalComments} = $internalComments;

  }

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I only know that it actually try to make the new object base on the input from the database. Thanks... This is the URL :http://swissknife.sourceforge.net/

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