ch06.095_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;

Readonly my $EMPTY_STR   => q{};
Readonly my $MAX_TRIES   => 3;
Readonly my $MIN_BIG_INT => 10;

Readonly my $INTEGER => qr/\A [+-]? \d* \n? \z/xms;

my $int;

LOOP: 
for my $try (1..$MAX_TRIES) {
    print 'Enter an integer: ';
    $int = <>;
 
    last LOOP if not defined $int;
    redo LOOP if $int eq "\n";
        
    chomp $int;
    last LOOP if $int =~ $INTEGER;
}


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