Program: gdcm
Module: $RCSfile: gdcmValEntry.h,v $
Language: C++
- Date: $Date: 2005/01/06 20:03:28 $
- Version: $Revision: 1.34 $
+ Date: $Date: 2005/01/21 11:40:56 $
+ Version: $Revision: 1.37 $
Copyright (c) CREATIS (Centre de Recherche et d'Applications en Traitement de
l'Image). All rights reserved. See Doc/License.txt or
{
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
- * \ingroup ValEntry
- * \brief The dicom header of a Dicom file contains a set of such entries
+ * \brief Any Dicom Document (File header or DicomDir) contains
+ * a set of DocEntry - Dicom entries -
* (when successfuly parsed against a given Dicom dictionary)
+ * ValEntry is an elementary DocEntry (as opposed to SeqEntry)
*/
class GDCM_EXPORT ValEntry : public DocEntry
{
~ValEntry();
/// \brief Returns the 'Value' (e.g. "Dupond Marcel") converted into a
- /// 'string', event if it's stored as an integer in the header of the
- /// current Dicom Document Entry
+ /// 'string', event if it's physically stored as an integer in the header of the
+ /// current Document (File or DicomDir)
std::string const &GetValue() const { return Value; };
- /// Sets the value (string) of the current Dicom Document Entry.
+ /// Sets the value (string) of the current Dicom entry.
/// The size is updated
virtual void SetValue(std::string const &val);
- virtual void Print(std::ostream &os = std::cout);
+ virtual void Print(std::ostream &os = std::cout, std::string const & indent = "");
virtual void WriteContent(std::ofstream *fp, FileType filetype);
protected:
- /// Sets the value (string) of the current Dicom Document Entry
+ /// Sets the value (string) of the current Dicom entry
void SetValueOnly(std::string const &val) { Value = val; };
private:
// Members :
- /// \brief Document Entry value, internaly represented as a std::string
+ /// \brief Dicom entry value, internaly represented as a std::string.
/// The Value Representation (\ref VR) is independently used
/// in order to interpret (decode) this field.
std::string Value;