
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style>This month, Andy Lester is going to be giving a talk on Ack and other code search tools.</div><div style><br>

</div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.7em;padding:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.7em;padding:0px"></p><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.7em;padding:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Programmers have long used grep for searching their source code, but there are tools that go beyond grep's capabilities.  We'll explore some of them in this talk, with an emphasis on <a href="http://betterthangrep.com/" style="display:inline;text-decoration:none">ack</a>, a tool written in Perl that's based on grep but tuned specifically for programmers.</span></p>

<p style="margin:0px 0px 0.7em;padding:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Topics will include:</span></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;list-style-position:outside"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px 0px;border-color:rgb(209,208,205) rgb(242,242,242) rgb(242,242,242)">

<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Staying in The Zone: Why grep isn't enough</span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px 0px;border-color:rgb(209,208,205) rgb(242,242,242) rgb(242,242,242)"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">ack and the new ack 2.0</span></li>

<li style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px 0px;border-color:rgb(209,208,205) rgb(242,242,242) rgb(242,242,242)"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">ctags + cscope</span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px 0px;border-color:rgb(209,208,205) rgb(242,242,242) rgb(242,242,242)">

<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Integrating with your editor</span></li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.7em;padding:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The presenter is Andy Lester, the author of ack, <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/PETDANCE" style="display:inline;text-decoration:none">many Perl modules</a>, and the book <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/algh/land-the-tech-job-you-love" style="display:inline;text-decoration:none">"Land The Tech Job You Love"</a>, published by Pragmatic Bookshelf.</span></p>

</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This meeting is at our usual location, 540 W Madison St. in the 9th floor conference rooms. Pizza and beer will be provided.</div><div><br></div><div>RSVP on the meetup at <span style="font-family:'.HelveticaNeueUI';font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup/events/108517322/">http://www.meetup.com/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup/events/108517322/</a></span></div>

<br><span style>Doug Bell</span><div style><a href="mailto:madcityzen@gmail.com">madcityzen@gmail.com</a></div></div></body></html>