ch11.012_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 11 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;

Readonly my $MAX => 4;

my @results = ('first', 1..10);
my $list_ref = [];
my $str_ref  = \do{ my $scalar = 'abcdefghijk' };
my $max_cols = 5;
my $name_ref = { first => 'James', mid => 'Q', last => 'Bick' };
my $middle = 'mid';
my $last   = 'last';
my $ref_to_list_ref = \$list_ref;

push @{$list_ref}, @results;
 
print substr(${$str_ref}, 0, $max_cols);
print "\n";
 
my $first = ${$list_ref}[0];
my @rest  = @{$list_ref}[1..$MAX];

use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [ $first, \@rest ];

my $first_name = ${$name_ref}{$first};
my ($initial, $last_name) = @{$name_ref}{$middle, $last};
 
use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [ $first_name, $initial, $last_name ];
 
print @{${$ref_to_list_ref}}[1..$MAX]; 
print "\n";