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# 2. SDFAPI

## 2.1. Overview

The libraries provided with SDF are summarised below.

Name | Purpose
General: |
parse.pl | general parsing and processing of SDF files
app.pl | application framework for all SDF scripts
name.pl | filename processing routines
table.pl | table processing routines (including read/write of TBL files)
dict.pl | dictionary processing routines
misc.pl | miscellaneous routines
Support: |
subs.pl | general run-time support
macros.pl | built-in macros
filters.pl | built-in filters
specials.pl | built-in special phrase styles
Drivers: |
toraw.pl | raw format driver
tomif.pl | MIF format driver
tohtml.pl | HTML format driver
totxt.pl | plain text format driver
topod.pl | POD format driver
toman.pl | man page format driver
API extraction: |
apiperl.pl | routines for extracting API information from a Perl library

Further details on the general libraries are given below.

app.pl - Application Framework Library

dict.pl - Dictionary Library

name.pl - Name Processing Library

misc.pl - Miscellaneous Library

parse.pl - Simple Document Format Library

table.pl - Table Processing Library