ch06.083_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;

Readonly my $EMPTY_STR => q{};
my $name = 'Evelyn Waugh';

my $salute;
if ($name eq $EMPTY_STR) {
    $salute = 'Dear Customer';
}
elsif ($name =~ m/\A ((?:Sir|Dame) \s+ \S+)/xms) {
    $salute = "Dear $1";
}
elsif ($name =~ m/(.*), \s+ Ph[.]?D\z/xms) {
    $salute = "Dear Dr $1";
}



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