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From: Will Kemp on 12 Apr 2008 14:35 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! -- http://SnapAndScribble.com/will/blog
From: Nix on 12 Apr 2008 21:41 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.) -- `The rest is a tale of post and counter-post.' --- Ian Rawlings describes USENET
From: Will Kemp on 13 Apr 2008 09:12
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! -- http://SnapAndScribble.com/will/blog |