From: Will Kemp on
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:54:29 +0000, Will Kemp wrote:

> I'm trying to find some way of parsing text files and extracting

Thanks, everyone, for all the very helpful responses!


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From: Nix on
On 12 Apr 2008, Will Kemp verbalised:
> Um... Ah, yeah. It probably could have! I had some vague recollection of
> an app called cpan (like i said, i haven't done any perl programming for
> years), but it didn't exist on my system and i thought it would have been
> part of the core perl installation, so i didn't look any further. I've
> installed it now though! ;-)

perl -MCPAN -e shell

r

get/make/test/install {foo}

quit

are the most important commands.

(Generally your distro packages the important stuff, but for little
things like this, as well as for those of us with hand-maintained Perl
installations, CPAN.pm is invaluable.)

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From: Will Kemp on
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:41:28 +0100, Nix wrote:

> On 12 Apr 2008, Will Kemp verbalised:
>> Um... Ah, yeah. It probably could have! I had some vague recollection
>> of an app called cpan (like i said, i haven't done any perl programming
>> for years), but it didn't exist on my system and i thought it would
>> have been part of the core perl installation, so i didn't look any
>> further. I've installed it now though! ;-)
>
> perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
> r
>
> get/make/test/install {foo}
>
> quit
>
> are the most important commands.
>
> (Generally your distro packages the important stuff, but for little
> things like this, as well as for those of us with hand-maintained Perl
> installations, CPAN.pm is invaluable.)

Great! Thanks for that!



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