use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/; use List::Util qw/min/; sub pw_not_ok { my $pw = shift; my $short = sub { "is too short" }; my $lowercase = sub { /[a-z]/ ? "" : "has no lowercase character" }; my $uppercase = sub { /[A-Z]/ ? "" : "has no uppercase character" }; ### UPDATED my $number = sub { /[0-9]/ ? "" : "has no number" }; my $special = sub { if ( /[\x21-\x2F]/ || /[\x3A-\x40]/ || /[\x5B-\x60]/ || /[\x7B-\x7E]/ ) { return ""; } else { return "has no special characters"; } }; my $pass = sub {""}; my %rules_by_max_length = ( 7 => [ $short ], 11 => [ $lowercase, $uppercase, $number ,$special ], 15 => [ $lowercase, $uppercase, $number ], 19 => [ $lowercase, $uppercase ], 50 => [ $pass ] ); my $len = length $pw; return "too long" if $len >= 50; my @boundaries = sort { $a <=> $b } keys %rules_by_max_length; for my $boundary ( @boundaries ) { next if $len > $boundary; my $rules = $rules_by_max_length{$boundary}; for my $rule ( @$rules ) { $_ = $pw; if ( my $err = $rule->() ) { return $err; } } } return; } # --------- Tests for my $pw ( "A" x 3 , "A" x 7 , "A" x 11, "a" x 5 . "A" x 3, "a" x 5 . "A" x 3 . "1", "a" x 5 . "A" x 3 . "1" .":", "a" x 24, "a" x 100, ){ if ( my $err = pw_not_ok($pw) ){ warn "ERROR: $pw is $err\n"; } else { print "OK: $pw\n" } }