Wow! First Real Working Perl Script!
Arthur Corliss
corliss at sinbad.net
Mon Apr 5 02:34:22 CDT 1999
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> Greetings Fellow Anchorage Perl Mongers!
:-) Same to you!
> I can officially say that since I just mongered my first perl script. I
> have been updating a web site on a monthly basis by hand. It involved a
> masthead image (gif) plus a variable number of page images (also gif).
> To say the least the work was tedious and fraught with errors. It was
> especially difficult to increase the number of pages from one month to
> the next.
>
> This thing I cobbled together today (after my post Easter Dinner nap) in
> about four hours has really delighted me. It was scary how fast it
> created the html files.
>
> Now I have more questions on how to do other things like automatically
> put the date time group where I want it.
>
> Cheerio for now!
We'll be looking foward to any questions you have, and amazed at how easy such
tasks are. :-) Share the knowledge, of course, if you've found a way to make
site maintenance easier through Perl!
BTW, on the date/time group thing, if your pre-processing output, you could do
a simple regex search and replace on a custom date tag in the text, something
like:
$dt_group = scalar localtime();
$text =~ s/<DTGROUP>/$dt_group/g;
or what have you. . .
--Arthur Corliss
Bolverk's Lair -- http://www.odinicfoundation.org/arthur/
"Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto
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