Re^2: hiccoughing here documents

Something like this works:

sub IFACE {
  my $pattern = shift @_;
  my $result;
  foreach $iface (@_) {
    $result .= (eval "\"$pattern\"") . "\n";
  }
  chomp $result;
  return $result;
}

&utter( <<"EOF" );
iptables -t nat -N outbound-DMZ
@{[ &IFACE(
  "iptables -t nat -A outbound-DMZ -s $lanCidr -o \$iface -j SNAT --to
+-source $dmzIp",
(keys %ipAddress)) ]}
iptables -t nat -A outbound-DMZ -j RETURN
EOF
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I know it's unconventional but I've capitalised the function name to emphasise its relationship to the name of the variable being interpolated, I felt that trying to pass that name as a parameter would be pushing my luck. It's (obviously) very sensitive to the double-quotes being correct, both in the function and in the heredoc itself. The one thing I wasn't able to get working was ~ to enable indents (5.20.2 on Debian Jessie armhf), but that's a fairly detail since the nearer the heredoc is to the actual stuff going into the tables the better.

Many thanks to everybody, especially NetWallah.

Pax vobiscum, MarkMLl

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Re^3: hiccoughing here documents
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Aug 14, 2017 at 18:48 UTC

Here's a version that's not quite so funky (but still kinda ugly). This is a situation in which a prototype is actually useful. If the hiccup() function is defined in the source file in which it's ~~used~~ | invoked, either the full definition of the function or a prototype declaration must appear before first invocation of the function. If the function is moved to a module, a use statement must appear before first invocation.

File hiccup_here_3.pl:

use warnings;
use strict;

use Hic;
# sub hiccup (&@);

my $lanCidr = 'WHATEVER';
my $dmzIp   = 'SOMEWHERE';
my %ipAddress = qw(HERE we_are  THERE it_goes  EVERYWHERE at_once);
my @array     = qw(WIBBLE BOFF);

my $s = << "EOF";
iptables -t nat -N outbound-DMZ
@{[ hiccup {
    "iptables -t nat -s $lanCidr -o $_ -j SNAT --to-source $dmzIp"
    } keys %ipAddress ]}
whatever else here
@{[ hiccup {
    "flocculate -f $_ -j SNAT --to-source $dmzIp"
    } @array ]}
iptables -t nat -A outbound-DMZ -j RETURN
EOF

# sub hiccup (&@) { return join "\n", map $_[0]->(), @_[ 1 .. $#_ ]; }

print "[[$s]]";
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Module Hic.pm:

package Hic;

use warnings;
use strict;

use parent 'Exporter';

our $VERSION = '0.1.0';

our @EXPORT    = qw(hiccup);  # default exported symbol(s)
our @EXPORT_OK = qw();        # optional exported symbol(s) (none)

sub hiccup (&@) { return join "\n", map $_[0]->(), @_[ 1 .. $#_ ]; }

1;
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However it's invoked, the function produces the following output:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks\Anonymous Monk\1197277>perl hiccup_here_3.pl
[[iptables -t nat -N outbound-DMZ
iptables -t nat -s WHATEVER -o EVERYWHERE -j SNAT --to-source SOMEWHER
+E
iptables -t nat -s WHATEVER -o THERE -j SNAT --to-source SOMEWHERE
iptables -t nat -s WHATEVER -o HERE -j SNAT --to-source SOMEWHERE
whatever else here
flocculate -f WIBBLE -j SNAT --to-source SOMEWHERE
flocculate -f BOFF -j SNAT --to-source SOMEWHERE
iptables -t nat -A outbound-DMZ -j RETURN
]]
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Update: Screwed up initial post of hiccup_here_3.pl file. Fixed.

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