List::Cycle
Cycle(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Cycle(3)
NAME
List::Cycle - Objects for cycling through a list of values
VERSION
Version 0.04
SYNOPSIS
use List::Cycle;
my $color = List::Cycle->new( {values => [’#000000’, ’#FAFAFA’, ’#BADDAD’]} );
print $color->next; # #000000
print $color->next; # #FAFAFA
print $color->next; # #BADDAD
print $color->next; # #000000
FUNCTIONS
new( {values => \@values} )
Creates a new cycle object, using @values.
The "values" keyword can be "vals", if you like.
"$cycle->set_values(\@values)"
Sets the cycle values and resets the internal pointer.
$cycle->reset
Sets the internal pointer back to the beginning of the cycle.
my $color = List::Cycle->new( {values => [qw(red white blue)]} );
print $color->next; # red
print $color->next; # white
$color->reset;
print $color->next; # red
$cycle->dump
Returns a handy string representation of internals.
$cycle->next
Gives the next value in the sequence.
AUTHOR
Andy Lester, "<andy at petdance.com>"
SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc List::Cycle
You can also look for information at:
* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
<http://annocpan.org/dist/List-Cycle>
* CPAN Ratings
<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/List-Cycle>
* RT: CPAN’s request tracker
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=List-Cycle>
* Search CPAN
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/List-Cycle>
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-list-cycle @
rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=List-Cycle>. I will
be notified, and then you’ll automatically be notified of progress on
your bug as I make changes.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
List::Cycle is a playground that uses some of the ideas in Damian Con-
way’s marvelous Perl Best Practices. <http://www.oreilly.com/cata-
log/perlbp/> One of the chapters mentions a mythical List::Cycle mod-
ule, so I made it real.
Thanks also to Ricardo SIGNES for patches.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2005 Andy Lester, All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.8.8 2005-11-10 Cycle(3)