ch06.070_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 6 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;
use List::Util qw( first );

$/ = "\n\n";
my @file_chunks = <DATA>;
chomp @file_chunks;

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

# Find the first "chunk" that spans more than one line 
my $next_multi_line_chunk
    = first { chomp; m/\n/xms; } @file_chunks;

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


__DATA__
A single line

Another single line;

A multi-line
chunk

Yet another single line