ch12.029_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 12 of "Perl Best Practices" ##
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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;

Readonly my $IDENT => qr/[A-Za-z]\w+/xms;

m/ 
    set      \s+ # Keyword
    ($IDENT) \s* # Name of file/o

ption() / mode() = \s*           # literal =
                  ([^\n()]*)     # Value of file/option/mode 
                  /xms()
               );