ch02.008_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 2 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 warnings;
use IO::Prompt;
use Carp;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Data::Alias;
use Readonly;


while (my $record = <$results_file>) {
    chomp $record;
    my ($name, $votes) = split "\t", $record;
    print 'Votes for ',
          substr($name, 0, 10),        # Parens needed for precedence
          ": $votes (verified)\n";
}