ch08.027_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 8 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;

my $sales_data = \*DATA;
my @sales;

sub translate_ID {
    my ($id) = @_;
    return $id;
}



# Specify field separator...
Readonly my $RECORD_SEPARATOR => q{,};
Readonly my $FIELD_COUNT      => 3;

 
# Grab each line/record...
while (my $record = <$sales_data>) {
    chomp $record;
 
    # Extract all fields...
    my ($ident, $sales, $price) 
        = split $RECORD_SEPARATOR, $record, $FIELD_COUNT+1;

 
    # Append each record, translating ID codes and
    # normalizing sales (which are stored in 1000s)...

    push @sales, { 
        ident => translate_ID($ident),
        sales => $sales * 1000,
        price => $price,
    };
}



use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [ @sales ];


__DATA__
X123-S,0000013247,00000199
SFG-AT,0000000102,00009099
Y811-Q,0000100300,00000033