All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
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runrig (3385)
dougwNO@SPAMcpan.org
Just another perl hacker somewhere near Disneyland
I have this homenode [perlmonks.org] of little consequence on Perl Monks [perlmonks.org] that you probably have no interest in whatsoever.
I also have some modules [cpan.org] on CPAN [cpan.org] some of which are marginally [cpan.org] more [cpan.org] useful [cpan.org] than others.
Useless use of division
if rpt.value/1000 < 0 then
print 0
else
print rpt.value/1000
end if
On another note, I wonder how much demand there would be for 4gl-like text report module in perl, with things like page headers and trailers, group headers and trailers, among other things. Back when I was first looking at perl formats, these were the things I was missing, and now I finally might be ready to code such a thing. Or is there something on CPAN I'm just not seeing yet?
Then again, a co-worker says I should just skip plain text reports and go straight to something more Crystal Reports-like, but I don't know where I'd start there (XML FO's? How to tell where to print page trailers w/variable fonts? etc).
an endless discussion thread about what features to include.
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
useless report (Score:1)
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Need for a 4GL like PRG (Score:1)
I would just love it!
It should be possible already, The Damian is probably doing a proof of concept - or will soon, as promised in apocalypse 7 [perl.com] (look at the very end of the page).