Merge remote branch 'remotes/pierre/master' into develop

[samtools.git] / sam_header.h

diff --git a/sam_header.h b/sam_header.h
index e5c754f3649ce6a13e6f5cb3ca93275d13bb67fe..ebea12fdb2286a346ef07265b7b5c9f9dba8b100 100644 (file)
--- a/sam_header.h
+++ b/sam_header.h
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ extern "C" {
        void sam_header_free(void *header);
        char *sam_header_write(const void *headerDict);   // returns a newly allocated string
 
+    /*
+        // Usage example 
+        const char *key, *val; 
+        void *iter = sam_header_parse2(bam->header->text);
+        while ( iter = sam_header_key_val(iter, "RG","ID","SM" &key,&val) ) printf("%s\t%s\n", key,val);
+    */
+    void *sam_header2key_val(void *iter, const char type[2], const char key_tag[2], const char value_tag[2], const char **key, const char **value);
        char **sam_header2list(const void *_dict, char type[2], char key_tag[2], int *_n);
 
        void *sam_header2tbl(const void *dict, char type[2], char key_tag[2], char value_tag[2]);