1Business::ISSN(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation    Business::ISSN(3)
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NAME

6       Business::ISSN - Perl extension for International Standard Serial
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SYNOPSIS

10               use Business::ISSN;
11               $issn_object = Business::ISSN->new('1456-5935');
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13               $issn_object = Business::ISSN->new('14565935');
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15               # print the ISSN (with hyphen)
16               print $issn_object->as_string;
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18               # check to see if the ISSN is valid
19               $issn_object->is_valid;
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21               #fix the ISSN checksum.  BEWARE:  the error might not be
22               #in the checksum!
23               $issn_object->fix_checksum;
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25               #EXPORTABLE FUNCTIONS
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27               use Business::ISSN qw( is_valid_checksum );
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29               #verify the checksum
30               if( is_valid_checksum('01234567') ) { ... }
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DESCRIPTION

33       new($issn)
34           The constructor accepts a scalar representing the ISSN.
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36           The string representing the ISSN may contain characters other than
37           [0-9xX], although these will be removed in the internal
38           representation.  The resulting string must look like an ISSN - the
39           first seven characters must be digits and the eighth character must
40           be a digit, 'x', or 'X'.
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42           The string passed as the ISSN need not be a valid ISSN as long as
43           it superficially looks like one.  This allows one to use the
44           "fix_checksum" method.
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46           One should check the validity of the ISSN with "is_valid()" rather
47           than relying on the return value of the constructor.
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49           If all one wants to do is check the validity of an ISSN, one can
50           skip the object-oriented  interface and use the
51           c<is_valid_checksum()> function which is exportable on demand.
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53           If the constructor decides it can't create an object, it returns
54           undef.  It may do this if the string passed as the ISSN can't be
55           munged to the internal format.
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57       $obj->checksum
58           Return the ISSN checksum.
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60       $obj->as_string
61           Return the ISSN as a string.
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63           A terminating 'x' is changed to 'X'.
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65       $obj->is_valid
66           Returns 1 if the checksum is valid.
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68           Returns 0 if the ISSN does not pass the checksum test.  The
69           constructor accepts invalid ISSN's so that they might be fixed with
70           "fix_checksum".
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72       $obj->fix_checksum
73           Replace the eighth character with the checksum the corresponds to
74           the previous seven digits.  This does not guarantee that the ISSN
75           corresponds to the product one thinks it does, or that the ISSN
76           corresponds to any product at all.  It only produces a string that
77           passes the checksum routine.  If the ISSN passed to the constructor
78           was invalid, the error might have been in any of the other nine
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81   EXPORTABLE FUNCTIONS
82       Some functions can be used without the object interface.  These do not
83       use object technology behind the scenes.
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85       is_valid_checksum('01234567')
86           Takes the ISSN string and runs it through the checksum comparison
87           routine.  Returns 1 if the ISSN is valid, 0 otherwise.
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AUTHOR

90       Currently maintained by brian d foy "<brian.d.foy@gmail.com>".
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92       Original module by Sami Poikonen, based on Business::ISBN by brian d
93       foy.
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95       This module is released under the terms of the Perl Artistic License.
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98       Copyright © 1999-2018, brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>. All rights
99       reserved.
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101       You may redistribute this under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.
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