EVOLUTION-MANAGER

Edit File: Examples.pm

package My::Examples;

my @states = (undef, # we want to start from one :)
    qw/Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut
    Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas
    Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota
    Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada/, 'New Hampshire',
    'New Jersey', 'New Mexico', 'New York', 'North Carolina',
    'North Dakota', qw/Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania/, 'Rhode Island',
    'South Carolina', 'South Dakota', qw/Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont
    Virginia Washington/, 'West Virginia', 'Wisconsin', 'Wyoming'
);

sub getStateName {
    my $self = shift;
    $states[shift];
}

sub getStateNames {
    my $self = shift;
    join "\n", map {$states[$_]} @_;
}

sub getStateList {
    my $self = shift;
    [map {$states[$_]} @{shift()}];
}

sub getStateStruct {
    my $self = shift;
    my %states = %{shift()};
    # be careful to distinguish block from hash. Just {} won't work
    +{map {$_ => $states[$states{$_}]} keys %states}; 
}