[DFW.pm] example deduplication code and full disclosure
Tommy Butler
dfwpm at internetalias.net
Mon Dec 30 13:22:49 PST 2013
Wow! I'll take that compliment, sir! "Greater love no man hath than he
that complementeth the Perl of his friends" (or something like that, right?)
** *One thing to note for anyone trying out that code: it just got some
important bug fixes, so you'll want to git pull* **
--Tommy Butler
On 12/30/2013 02:38 PM, Rob Eaglestone wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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