[pm-h] October Houston.pm Technical Meeting

[Mike Flannigan]

Good topics.

This (link below) is a file that I didn't write,
but I use various versions of quite often.  It
processes backwards in the directory structure.

http://www.mflan.com/temp/dirproc.txt

I would like to hear about other techniques also.

I wonder if you could modify the files in place
while running through this script.  You probably
can, but I never do.


Mike



On 9/25/2012 2:34 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org> [120925 04:06]:
>> The next meeting is in about 2.5 weeks on Thursday, Oct 11.
>>
>> Does anyone have a topic to present or a topic they would like to hear?
> (1) I would benefit from a tutorial on the various (or just the
> "best") approach to recursively operating on all the files in a
> directory and its subdirectories.  It appears that the "File::..."
> modules are applicable.
>
> (2) I also would benefit from a tutorial on use of the diamond
> operator (or other approaches) to make changes throughout a file.
>
> %%%%%%%
>
> My motivation is the need to perform a sequence of perhaps a dozen
> operations on less than a hundred text files.  The ultimate product is
> a total of about a thousand files, all of which are identical in
> format, but categorized in at least two directory tiers.
>
> Specifically, I need to create for each chapter of the Bible a LaTeX
> template to which a commentator may add commentary.  The template must
> include the Scripture text for the respective chapter.  The total
> number of templates to be produced is on the order of a thousand.  The
> templates are in a directory structure, categorized by book; so it
> appears to me that the task calls for recursive processing.
>
> Some of the tasks include:
>
>    => Parse each book file into chapter files, automatically creating
>       for each chapter a filename of the form
>       "<bookname>-<chapter-number>".
>
>    => Strip from the source text assorted publisher-specific
>       typographic artifacts (such as marginal notes and redundant white
>       space).
>
>    => Add markup for features such as verse numbers set in a small font.
>
>    => Add markup for header, footer, multiple columns, page number,
>       revision date, etc.
>
>    => Standardize the spelling of proper names to either the
>       Hellenistic or the Hebraic form (such as changing "Noe" to "Noah").
>
> But I suppose that use of the diamond operator and recursion in the
> context of "File::..." are a bit too elementary to be of general
> interest; after all, the subjects ARE covered in "Learning Perl".
>
> RLH
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