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Articles and tips on this subject | updated |
2657 | Want to do a big batch edit? Nothing beats Perl! I still love Perl ...
Wanting to convert a file of lines like this:
<img src=rp_153_track.jpg><br><br>
into lines like this:
rp_153_track.jpg <img src=rp_153_track.jpg><br><br>
The code is as simple as:
/=(.*?)>/;
print "$1 $_";
And ... | 2010-06-23 |
2129 | Nothing beats Perl to solve a data manipulation requirement quickly OK - I admit it. It might be slightly out of fashion but I still love Perl for that quick hack script which is a one-off data manipulation need.
I have two files - the first containing records of who signed our pledge for an appropriate TransWilts train service last year, and another containing records ... | 2009-04-16 |
2047 | Small Web Server in Perl I would not encourage you to write your own web server in Perl, but I might suggest that you used the http protocol as a convenient intersystem communication protocol ... and that might result in you implementing part of http for the purpose ;-)
With that proviso in mind, I have just added source code ... | 2009-02-18 |
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place_people | Application that demonstrates integration of all the fundamental elements of Perl |
requests | Data file for place_people |
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