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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • Or even more easily generated choices:
    foreach my $cmd (keys %choices) {
      for my $i (1..length $cmd) {
        $choices{substr($cmd, 0, $i)} = $choices{$cmd};
      }
    }
    N, NO, NOR, NORT, NORTH....
    --

    --
    xoa

    • Or, rather than filling the hash with small keys, make a smarter dispatcher:

      # find those commands which could match
      @cmd = grep { /^$cmd/ } keys %cmd;
      # die if none or several commands match
      die "Ambiguous command $cmd (@cmd)" if @cmd != 1;
      # call the routine
      $cmd{shift@cmd}(@args);

      Mmm, $cmd, @cmd and %cmd used in 3 lines... That's one point in the Perl purity test. :-)

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