[Melbourne-pm] Perl best practices: script actions based on acommand line argument

[Leigh Sharpe]

What about:

My $mode=shift;
$mode eq 'dns' and dns_function();
$mode eq 'mx' and mx_function();
# etc. 
# etc. 

It's a little less ugly than the cascading if..else's.


 

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[mailto:melbourne-pm-bounces+lsharpe=pacificwireless.com.au at pm.org] On
Behalf Of Daniel Pittman
Sent: Friday, 1 February 2008 4:42 PM
To: melbourne-pm at pm.org
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Perl best practices: script actions based on
acommand line argument

G'day.

I semi-regularly end up writing small scripts that do little jobs for
myself, such as performing various DNS checks, interfacing to billing
systems and the like.

Generally these end up as a single script that handles half a dozen
closely related but mostly independent functions, such as:

     dns mx ...         # check MX details for a domain
     dns ns ...         # check NS details for a domain

I typically implement this as a bunch of supporting code and libraries,
and a command wrapper that read the first command line argument and
dispatches to a function based on it.

This being Perl there are a lot of ways to do that, all of which are
a bit ugly (in my opinion), such as a cascade of if ($blah eq 'foo')
statements or a hash full of function refs...


So, what is the general consensus on the best way to do this -- what is
the nicest way to dispatch to the various command handlers based on a
command line argument?

Regards,
        Daniel
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