[DFW.pm] example deduplication code and full disclosure

[Rob Eaglestone]

That's beautiful Perl, Tommy.  I see I will have to replace my old
"Programming Perl" book with one updated for the 2000s (mine is dated 1996,
and shows Perl at version 5.003).



On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Tommy Butler <dfwpm at internetalias.net>wrote:

>  Full disclosure: I'm not competing in the contest as John and I are
> hosting it and have written the code that generates the random dataset.
>
> However I wrote some example code that does work and which I'd like to
> share to help give others a gentle push if anyone is having trouble getting
> started.
>
> Feel free to steal/fork/laugh at the code as much as you like.  The code
> isn't extensively commented but it is very readable.  It's also simple and
> concise and makes use of  CPAN modules, some of which use XS code to get
> performance gains -- which is within the rules for the "traditional Perl
> solution" competition category.
>
> One provision is that my code purposely does not solve all the problems.
> In particular it doesn't handle hard links.  That's up to you to solve.
>
> https://github.com/tommybutler/dupfind
>
> --Tommy Butler
>
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