ch09.064_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;

use List::Util qw( min max );

sub clip_to_range($$@) {  # takes two scalars and an array
    my ($min, $max, @data) = @_;
 
    return map { max($min, min($max, $_)) } @data;
}


use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [
    clip_to_range(2,9 => 1,3,5,-2,99,11,9,8 )
];