NAME

Parse::FixedDelimiter - parse a string containing a fixed delimiter into component parts

SYNOPSIS

    use Parse::FixedDelimiter;
    
    $phone_number=803-781-4191;
    Parse::FixedDelimiter::parse($phone_number,
				 \%moms_phone, 
				 '-',
				 [ 'area_code', 'exchange', 'number' ]);

    for (keys %moms_phone) {
      print $_, " ", $moms_phone{$_}, $/;
    }


    # yields $moms_phone{area_code} == 803
    #        $moms_phone{exchange}  == 781
    #        $moms_phone{number}    == 4191

    

DESCRIPTION

The Parse::FixedDelimiter module facilitates the process of breaking a string into its fixed-length components.

PARSING ROUTINES

There are two parsing routines: parse() and quick_parse.

parse()

This function takes a string, a reference to a hash and a reference to a list of hashes and stores the results of fixed length parsing into the hash reference passed in.

quick_parse()

This function takes the name of a pre-packaged datatype, a string, a reference to a hash and stores the results of fixed length parsing into the hash reference passed in.

DIAGNOSTIC ROUTINES

There is one diagnostic routine: print_parsed().

print_parsed()

This function prints all parses performed.

EXAMPLES

see SYNOPSIS

AUTHOR

Terrence Brannon <tbrannon@end70.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999 End70 Corporation

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.