在perl中使用constant编译指示允许使用常量。常量顾名思义就是在整个程序的执行过程中,变量的值不会发生变化。如果在编写程序的时候, 你能够确定哪些变量的值不在发生变化,你可以使用use constant的方法来定义常量。下面就是标量常量,列表常量,hash常量的使用方法。
Scalar constant
use constant COUNT = > 100;
# ------------------------------------
print COUNT ;
List constant
use constant WEEKDAYS = > qw (
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
);
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
print "Today is ", (WEEKDAYS ) [ 1 ], ".\n";
Hash constant
use constant WEEKABBR = > {
‘Monday’ = > ‘Mon’,
‘Tuesday’ = > ‘Tue’,
‘Wednesday’ = >’Wed’,
‘Thursday’ = > ‘Thu’,
‘Friday’ = >’Fri’ )
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
%abbr = WEEKABBR;
$day = ‘Wednesday’;
print “The abbrevaiation for $day is ”, $abbr { $day };