[ale] perl question

[Michael Barker]

I have to agree with James.

My first proffesional perl script was a log parser.

Have lots of fun with regular expressions and try formats as well.

If you want some examples go to http://www.perlmonks.com/.

Michael

James Kinney wrote:
> 
> Perl's a good choice for this. You're idea is sort of vague, but it's a
> good learning project for perl basics.
> 
> You might want to look at things like how to open , write to, and close
> files, how to use some basic regular expressions, how to increment
> counters and maybe even formats for pretty output.
> 
> The really nice thing about a project like this is you won't break
> anything in the learning curve. Copy the log to a safe location and parse
> and process to your hearts content.
> 
> Everybody has different starting points for perl. Mine was the llama book,
> "Learning Perl" (ISBN 1-56592-284-0). It is getting dog-eared, now. But I
> still refer to it for a quick lookup. The camel book is the next level of
> _must_have_, "Programming Perl" (ISBN 1-56592-149-6).
> 
> Some people will claim that perl is the perfect does-anything language. In
> fact it has been referred to many time as "the swiss-army chainsaw of
> languages". I'm just too {lazy|busy|tired|disinterested} to pick up
> another language. OK, maybe python and and some of the gtk stuff for perl
> and python.
> 
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