another non-OO way of doing things popped into my head. theres a module for processing NetFlow records ( module CFlow out of the flow-tools package, not on CPAN ) that does things like this:


sub match_func {
  return 0 unless $bytes > 5000;
  return 0 unless $src_port == 80;
  # do_something with matched
  return 1;
}

CFlow::loop( \&match_func, $filehandle );
print "matched $CFlow::match_count records\n";

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since you generally work with a single record, if the fields of the record are unique... forget all of the OO stuff and use globals. the 'loop' routine takes a coderef to be run after each record is parsed (and shoved into the global variables) and a filehandle ( if filehandle is undef, read STDIN, if filehandle is a string, open and use that file.). the coderef returns 0 if the record wasn't interesting, else it does whatever and returns 1 (so the module can keep track of how many records matched).

while not-00, it does do an excellent job of hiding the details from the user, eliminates all of the derefrencing ( $chunk->type() just becomes $type) which makes it easy to write quick one-off scripts.


sub fix_building {
  return 0 unless $building eq 'FOO';
  $building eq 'BAR';
  print_rec;
  return 1;
}

DBParserThingy::loop ( \&fix_building );

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in thread My first package - need help getting started by Limbic~Region

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