ch09.018_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 9 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;


# Trim some text and put a "box" around it...
sub boxed {
    $_[0] =~ s{\A \s+ | \s+ \z}{}gxms;
    return "[$_[0]]";
}


my $text = 'hi there';
print boxed($text), "\n";
use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [ $text ];

print boxed('hi there'), "\n";