ACH-Generator

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NAME
	ACH::Generator - Generates an ACH formatted file from an ACH perl object
	
VERSION
	Version: 0.01
	May 2006

DESCRIPTION
	ACH::Generator is a simple, generic subclass of ACH used to generate ACH files.
	It's intentional use is for testing purposes ONLY.  ACH-Generator will allow a 
	developer to create an ACH formatted file.

USING ACH-Generator
	use ACH::Generator;

	my $newACH = new ACH;
	my $newACHfile = 'newACHFile.ACH';	# The name of the ACH file to be generated
	
	...

lib/ACH/Generator.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

package ACH::Generator;

$VERSION = '0.01';

use strict;
use warnings;

use ACH;

sub _croak { require Carp; Carp::croak(@_) }

=head1 NAME

ACH::Generator - Generates an ACH formatted file from an ACH perl object
	
=head1 VERSION

Version: 0.01
May 2006

=head1 DESCRIPTION

ACH::Generator is a simple, generic subclass of ACH used to generate ACH files.
It's intentional use is for testing purposes ONLY.  ACH-Generator will allow a 
developer to create an ACH formatted file.

=head1 USING ACH-Generator

	use ACH::Generator;

	my $newACH = new ACH;
	my $newACHfile = 'newACHFile.ACH';	# The name of the ACH file to be generated
	

lib/ACH/Generator.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

=head1 METHODS

=head2 generate

Generates an ACH file from the data in the ACH object

=cut

# Generate the ACH file 
sub ACH::generate {
  # Get the file name
  my $self = shift; 
  my $file = shift or _croak "Need an ACH file";
  
  # File data
  my $data = "";
  
  # Iterate through the ACH Data
  foreach my $item (@{$self->{_achData}}) { # Array of ACH file Sections
    my @achSections = map { defined $_ ? $_ : '' } @{$item};

lib/ACH/Generator.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

      foreach my $hashItem (keys (%hash)) { # Hash containing the ACH field name and value
        chomp $hash{$hashItem};
        my $dataValue = "";

		# Get the section header in the first field, else get the data        
        if ($y == 0) { $dataValue = $sectionValue = $hash{$hashItem}; }
        else { 
          # Get the field length and data
		  my $field = ${$self->{_achFormats}{$sectionValue}}[$y];
          my ($field_length);  while ( my ($key, $value) = each(%$field) ) { $field_length = $value; }
          $dataValue = substr($hash{$hashItem}, 0, $field_length); 
        }
        
        # Store the data in the file data variable
        $data .= $dataValue;
      }
    }
  }
  
  # Open the file
  if ( open(OUTPUT, ">$file") ) {}