Re: Re: Re: Best way to match items in an array

It is not required to have unique handler for each suffix. As the suffixes are just 'values' of the hash, not 'keys', so you can share handlers among suffixes. Also, you can make those handlers accept more parameters, for complex situation.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Best way to match items in an array by ibanix (Hermit) on Dec 07, 2002 at 21:23 UTC
Actually, I was thinking that I would have to code something like: `my %handlers = ("zip" => \&zip, "zaaap" => undef, "txt" => \&txt, "ini +" => \&misc, "foo" => \&misc, ....);` [download] That is, if I have 50 different file types, do I need 50 different `"end" => \&handler` entries? In addition, my suffixes may not be known until the script is run... `$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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by ibanix (Hermit) on Dec 07, 2002 at 21:23 UTC

my %handlers = ("zip" => \&zip, "zaaap" => undef, "txt" => \&txt, "ini
+" => \&misc, "foo" => \&misc, ....);
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"end" => \&handler

$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;

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