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I've not read PBP, and I don't mean to come off as sounding rude, but how is using Switch -- a source filtering module at heart -- a "best practice"? :|

And, apart from that, your $hsbnNet and $adminNet values should ideally be generated for you out of "hsbn" and "admin".

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

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Re^3: matching a regular expression
by HuckinFappy (Pilgrim) on May 18, 2006 at 17:31 UTC

    You'd have to try a lot harder for me to think you were being rude...with apologies to Douglas Adams, I eat ruder things than you with my breakfast cereal :)

    The PBP portion of my post was really the IO::Prompt stuff. That early in the morning, I was confusing PBP and "Perl 6 Now" when I pulled in the Switch module. Thanks for pointing it out, I shouldn't have given the impression that the Switch idea was a Damian recommendation.

    As to your other comment, I'm dragging this morning, and am not seeing what you're suggesting. Could you enlighten me?

    Thanks,
    ~jeff

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      What I meant was, writing "h|hs|hsb|hsbn" yourself is tedious. Better to have Perl generate that for you: 
      my %abbrevs = map {
  my $word = $_;
  ($word => join("|", map { substr($word, 1, $_) } 1 .. length($word) 
+}))
} qw( hsbn admin ... );

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        Thanks. I agree it seemed tedious, but no better method was jumping to mind. I like that solution!
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