I like Anonymous Monk's suggestion, as it facilitates "compiled" encodings. I'd still like to figure out the Encode::Encoding method though. Afterward I can probably post a tutorial on both methods.

Here's a self-contained snippet that should be a framework from which to work on getting the Encode::Encoding method going. Unfortunately, it doesn't work (ie, the rot13 encoding doesn't take place) because I'm still unclear on how Encode's define_encoding() fits into the mix. If anyone can fill in the blank, or possibly point to the documentation that I seem to have missed, I would certainly appreciate it.

package Encode::ROT13;

use strict;
use warnings;

use parent qw( Encode::Encoding );

__PACKAGE__->Define( 'rot13' );

sub encode($$;$){
  my( $obj, $str, $chk ) = @_;
  $str =~ tr/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;
  $_[1] = '' if $chk; # $_[1] is aliased through the call. Inplace edi
+t.
  return $str;
}

no warnings 'once';
*Encode::ROT13::decode = \&encode; # Because rot13( rot13() ) is a rou
+nd-trip.

1;


package main;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Encode 'define_encoding';

use File::Slurp;

# define_encoding( $object, 'rot13' ); # Um....?

my @words = read_file( \*DATA, chomp => 1, binmode => ':rot13' );


print "$_\n" for @words;


__DATA__
Apple
cat
dog
strawberry
watermelon

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Dave

In reply to Re: Creating (and using) a custom encoding. by davido
in thread Creating (and using) a custom encoding. by davido

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