ch04.070_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 4 of "Perl Best Practices"  ##
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##  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;

sub send_msg {};

my $target = 'abcdefg';
my $text   = 'abcdefghijklmnop';

my $signal  = 1;
my $process = 12345;

my @casino_money;
my @my_wallet;


# This may or may not send the signal to the process
# (depending on the order in which send_msg() expects its arguments)

send_msg($signal => $process);
 
# This doesn't find the index of the target in the text (it's vice versa)
my $found_at = index $target => $text;
 
# An excellent money-making plan...for the casino
push @casino_money => @my_wallet;