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NAME

Data::Verifier::Filters - Filters for values

VERSION

version 0.54

SYNOPSIS

    use Data::Verifier;

    my $dv = Data::Verifier->new(profile => {
        name => {
            type    => 'Str',
            filters => [ qw(collapse trim) ]
        }
    });

    $dv->verify({ name => ' foo  bar  '});
    $dv->get_value('name'); # 'foo bar'

CUSTOM FILTERS

Adding a custom filter may be done by providing a coderef as one of the filters:

  # Remove all whitespace
  my $sub = sub { my ($val) = @_; $val =~ s/\s//g; $val }

  $dv->verify({
    name => {
      type    => 'Str'
        filters => [ $sub ]
      }
  });
  $dv->get_value('name'); # No whitespace!

METHODS

collapse

Collapses all consecutive whitespace into a single space

flatten

Removes all whitespace.

lower

Converts the value to lowercase.

trim

Removes leading and trailing whitespace

upper

Converts the value to uppercase.

AUTHOR

Cory G Watson <gphat@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Cold Hard Code, LLC.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.