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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • Are you talking about the Crenshaw tutorial [iecc.com] that some user here wrote about in his journal? Well: "me too". I'm also converting it into something prettier, and the easiest to get quick and decent results, is HTML. Actually I already got quite far in a small amount of code, starting by simply treating sequences of empty lines as an indication to start a new paragraph.

    My main remaining problem now is to reliably recognize the code sections. They start and end with lines of Pascal comments containing nothing

    • Indeed, I am.

      I've been thinking about that. My first (hackish) solution was to add a <P> to any line that ended in a } or a ;, and then add a <BLOCKQUOTE> wrapper around every begin/end pair.

      The results are easy to read but not monospaced. I realize it's a crappy solution, but it works. (Realistically, I should be writing a really thin parser, and maybe I will someday, but this is a one-shot job, etc.)

      The results look like this:

      ***

      {-----------------------------------------------------

      --

      ------------------------------
      You are what you think.

  • I like your little conversations between self and me; it's effective for communicating in this medium. However, to an OO purist, shouldn't that be "self," and "this"? :)

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    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

  • "Screen on!"

    "Text off!"

    "How are you, gentlemen?"

    "Take off every text!"

    Please, somebody stop me, before I get hurt. I've never made an all your base are belong to us joke before...

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    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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