ch11.025_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 11 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;

Readonly my $EMPTY_STR => q{};

sub generate_account_num {
    return join $EMPTY_STR, map { int rand 10 } 1..10;
}

sub generate_initial_passwd {
    return join $EMPTY_STR, map { ('a'..'z',0..9)[rand 36] } 1..6;
}

# Create a new bank account...
sub new_account {
    my ($customer, $id, $type) = @_;
 
    # Account details are stored in anonymous hashes...
    my $new_account = {
        customer  => $customer,
        id        => generate_account_num(),
        type      => $type,
        user_id   => $id,
        passwd    => generate_initial_passwd(),
    };
 
    # The new account is then added to the customer's list of accounts...
    push @{$customer->{accounts}}, $new_account;
 
    return $new_account;
}

my %account = (
    name => 'Rockerbloke',
);
my $account = new_account( \%account, 12345, 'Investment');

use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [ \%account ];