NAME

Finance::PremiumBonds - Perl extension to check Premium Bond holder's numbers

SYNOPSIS

  use Finance::PremiumBonds;
  
  if (defined(my $won = Finance::PremiumBonds::has_won($holder_number))) 
  {
      print "Looks like you " . ($won)? 'may have won' : 'have not won';
  } else {
      warn "An error occurred.";
  }
  

DESCRIPTION

Quick way to look up a Premium Bond holder's number on the National Savings and Investments website to determine whether the holder has won any prizes recently.

Currently I don't have a list of possible responses to look for (and they could change at any time anyway) so the module will return true if it receives a non-error response which doesn't include the recognised negative response text. If it ever reports incorrect results to you, please do let me know so I can update it.

FUNCTIONS

has_won($holder_number)

Checks whether $holder_number has won any prizes recently. Returns 1 if it looks like you've won, 0 if you haven't, or undef if it failed to check.

AUTHOR

David Precious, <davidp@preshweb.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008-2011 by David Precious

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

LIMITATIONS

Currently, the module detects lack of a recognised "losing" response rather than the presence of a winning response; without a holder's number which has won something, I can't see what the winning responses look like. Maybe my meagre Premium Bonds investment will win something one day, then I can update this module :)