ch09.036_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;

Readonly my $EMPTY_STR => q{};

Readonly my $DEF_PAGE_WIDTH => 78;
Readonly my $SPACE          => q{ };
 
sub padded {
    my ($text, $arg_ref) = @_;
 
    # Compute left and right spacings...
    my $gap   = ($arg_ref->{cols}||$DEF_PAGE_WIDTH) - length($text||=$EMPTY_STR);
    my $left  = $arg_ref->{centered} ? int($gap/2) : 0;
    my $right = $gap - $left;
 
    # Prepend and append space...
    my $filler = $arg_ref->{filler} || $SPACE;
    return $filler x $left . $text . $filler x $right;
}


print '[', padded( 'cell' ), "]\n";