Re^3: Where to put self-made loop logic (separate module)?

Does the format of the input data have a name? Is the input data format documented somewhere?

Dave

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Re^4: Where to put self-made loop logic (separate module)? by basic6 (Novice) on Dec 30, 2012 at 20:50 UTC
The input is (part of) a template. In other words, it's just human-readable text, no code (no Perl, no HTML). There may be a couple of lines, each starting with an asterisk - that's what my function parses. But that's probably not important, as my goal is to have a line-by-line loop structure which allows in-place modifications. For that matter, the input is guaranteed to always be UTF-8 encoded text (only printable characters and whitespaces).	[reply]
Re^5: Where to put self-made loop logic (separate module)? by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 01, 2013 at 00:29 UTC
With the parsing logic embedded, it seems like a very specific tool that targets an uncommon input format. That's not "generally useful", and probably doesn't make for a great CPAN candidate. If you write the loop such that one could pass in a subref, it might be a more generalized tool, but then it's just a loop, and I don't see much advantage to it. This isn't to say you're not onto something. I just think it would require that you decide what exactly you want your module to accomplish. Throughout this thread I just see a module that handles a specific type of data that nobody else is likely to need to handle. Dave	[reply]