ch12.069_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 12 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 %option = (
    eat   => 'fruit',
    drink => 'water',
    head  => 'clear',
);

CONFIG_LINE:
while (my $config = <DATA>) {
    # Ignore lines that are unrecognisable...
    next CONFIG_LINE
        if $config !~ m/ \A  (\S+)  \s* (=|[+]=) \s*  ([^;]+) ;  \s* \# (.*)/xms;
 
    # Verify the option makes sense...
    debug($4);
    croak "Unknown option ($1)" 
        if not exists $option{$1};
 
    # Replace or append value depending on specified operator...
    if ($2 eq '=') {
        $option{$1} = $3;
    }
    else {
        $option{$1}.= $3;
    }
}


sub debug {
    my ($msg) = @_;
    print "Found: $msg\n";
}
use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [ \%option ];

__DATA__
eat = cake;     # Food
drink = wine;   # Drink
head = off;     # Revolution!