ch04.047_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 4 of "Perl Best Practices"    ##
##     Copyright (c) O'Reilly & Associates, 2005. All Rights Reserved.      ##
##  See: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html  ##
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# Standard modules...
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Prompt;
use Carp;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Data::Alias;
use Readonly;

my $usage_error = 1;

use Readonly;
Readonly my $USAGE => <<'END_USAGE';
Usage: qdump file [-full] [-o] [-beans]
Options:
    -full  : produce a full dump
    -o     : dump in octal
    -beans : source is Java
END_USAGE
 
# and later...
 
if ($usage_error) {
    warn $USAGE;
}