EDI parsers in Perl (specifically 867 data)?

japhy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm on the verge of writing a parser for 867 EDI data (that's "Product Transfer and Resale Report" information in "Electronic Data Interchange" format). I checked CPAN quickly and googled and found no real results.

Does anyone know of a Perl parser for EDI templates? If not, I'll be starting a new branch in CPAN somewhere. Namespace suggestions? Trick is that package names can't be only digits, so ...::EDI::867 won't cut it, and ...::EDI::EDI867 feels clunky.

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
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Re: EDI parsers in Perl (specifically 867 data)? by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Dec 07, 2005 at 17:26 UTC
This works fine: `package EDI::123; sub here { print "I am in ", __PACKAGE__, "\n"; } package main; EDI::123::here;` [download] Top-level packages can't start with a digit. But the whole package name is EDI::867, so it doesn't start with a digit. Also, creating an EDI directory and an 867.pm file in it, `use EDI::867;` worked fine. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: EDI parsers in Perl (specifically 867 data)? by serf (Chaplain) on Dec 07, 2005 at 17:03 UTC
Would EDI::TS867 or EDI::TransSet867 be appropriate? (for "Transaction Set 867")	[reply]