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/**************************************************************************
 *                                                                        *
 *  Regina - A Normal Surface Theory Calculator                           *
 *  Computational Engine                                                  *
 *                                                                        *
 *  Copyright (c) 1999-2008, Ben Burton                                   *
 *  For further details contact Ben Burton (bab@debian.org).              *
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 *  MA 02110-1301, USA.                                                   *
 *                                                                        *
 **************************************************************************/

/* end stub */

/*! \file orb.h
 *  \brief Allows reading Orb / Casson triangulation files.
 */

#ifndef __ORB_H
#ifndef __DOXYGEN
#define __ORB_H
#endif

#include <string>

namespace regina {

class NTriangulation;

/**
 * \weakgroup foreign
 * @{
 */

/**
 * Reads a triangulation from the given Orb / Casson file.  A newly
 * allocated triangulation will be returned; it is the user's
 * responsibility to deallocate this when it is finished with.
 *
 * The packet label of the new triangulation will be the manifold name
 * read from the second line of the Orb / Casson file.  The first line
 * of the Orb / Casson file must simply be ``<tt>% orb</tt>''.
 *
 * If the file could not be read or if the data was not in the correct
 * format, 0 will be returned.
 *
 * \i18n This routine makes no assumptions about the
 * \ref i18n "character encoding" used in the given file \e name, and
 * simply passes it through unchanged to low-level C/C++ file I/O routines.
 * It assumes however that the \e contents of the file are in UTF-8.
 *
 * @param filename the name of the Orb / Casson file from which to read.
 * @return a new triangulation containing the data read from the Orb / Casson
 * file, or 0 on error.
 *
 * @author Ryan Budney, also with code from Damien Heard
 */
NTriangulation* readOrb(const char *filename);

/*@}*/

} // namespace regina

#endif