[ale] perl question

[James Kinney]

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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