ch06.097_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 6 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 $advert = 'GT YR MED NEEDS @ GRT PRICES';

while (my $client_ref = get_client()) {
    my $preferred_phone;
 
    # Retrieve phone number (clients can now have more than one)...
    for my $phone ( @{ $client_ref->{phones} } ) {
        # Skip client if "do not call" was requested...
        next if $phone =~ m/do \s+ not \s+ call/ixms;
 
        # Select phone number...
        $preferred_phone = $phone;
        last;
    }
 
    # Profit!
    send_sms_to($preferred_phone, $advert);
}


BEGIN {

my @clients = (
    { client => 'Smith', phones => [ '867-0309', '867-0310'               ] },
    { client => 'Jones', phones => [ '567-6717 [do not call]', '567-6718' ] },
    { client => 'Wang',  phones => [ '677-0555', '677-0556'               ] },
);

sub get_client {
    return shift @clients;
}

sub send_sms_to {
    my ($phone, $advert) = @_;
    print "To: $phone\n$advert\n";
}

}