ch08.048_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 8 of "Perl Best Practices"  ##
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##  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 $addr = '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC, USA';

my $country_pos  = 41;
my $COUNTRY_LEN  = 3;
my $country_code = 'USA';

my %country_name = (
    USA => 'The United States of America',
);

substr($addr, $country_pos, $COUNTRY_LEN) 
    = $country_name{$country_code};

use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [ $addr ];