Program: gdcm
Module: $RCSfile: gdcmDocument.cxx,v $
Language: C++
- Date: $Date: 2005/01/18 16:23:52 $
- Version: $Revision: 1.197 $
+ Date: $Date: 2005/01/18 18:03:16 $
+ Version: $Revision: 1.198 $
Copyright (c) CREATIS (Centre de Recherche et d'Applications en Traitement de
l'Image). All rights reserved. See Doc/License.txt or
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/**
- * \brief retrieves a Dicom Element (the first one) using (group, element)
- * \warning (group, element) IS NOT an identifier inside the Dicom Header
- * if you think it's NOT UNIQUE, check the count number
- * and use iterators to retrieve ALL the Dicoms Elements within
- * a given couple (group, element)
+ * \brief retrieves a Dicom Element using (group, element)
* @param group Group number of the searched Dicom Element
* @param elem Element number of the searched Dicom Element
* @return
}
/**
- * \brief Loads the element while preserving the current
- * underlying file position indicator as opposed to
- * to LoadDocEntry that modifies it.
+ * \brief Same as \ref Document::GetDocEntry except it only
+ * returns a result when the corresponding entry is of type
+ * SeqEntry.
+ * @param group Group number of the searched Dicom Element
+ * @param elem Element number of the searched Dicom Element
+ * @return When present, the corresponding SeqEntry.
+ */
+SeqEntry *Document::GetSeqEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem)
+{
+ DocEntry *currentEntry = GetDocEntry(group, elem);
+ if ( !currentEntry )
+ {
+ return 0;
+ }
+ if ( SeqEntry *entry = dynamic_cast<SeqEntry*>(currentEntry) )
+ {
+ return entry;
+ }
+ gdcmVerboseMacro( "Unfound SeqEntry.");
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * \brief Loads the element while preserving the current
+ * underlying file position indicator as opposed to
+ * LoadDocEntry that modifies it.
* @param entry Header Entry whose value will be loaded.
* @return
*/